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[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

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Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[91]<\/a> https:\/\/opencorporates.com\/officers?q=ahmad+al+khatib&utf8=%E2%9C%93<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"Cambridge Analytica: the criminals who persuade us to vote for Trump","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"cambridge-analytica-the-criminals-who-persuade-us-to-vote-for-trump","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5318","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"prev":true,"total_page":62},"paged":1,"column_class":"jeg_col_2o3","class":"epic_block_3"};

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now, they were both continuing on. Where to, they didn\u2019t know exactly, but they would try Aden and then head north. What about the front line? The war? \u201cEh, we are not scared,\u201d one of them said. \u201cAfter what we have just been through, we might die but we cannot be scared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Yemeni kidnappers demanded that their captives paid them 600 Ethiopian birr (around US$15). According to IOM, they were lucky: some migrants get extorted for more than $1,000. It took the young men\u2019s families about six days to gather the money and transfer it to Yemen. \u201cWhen they received the money, they released us, each by name,\u201d the elder Mohamed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, they were both continuing on. Where to, they didn\u2019t know exactly, but they would try Aden and then head north. What about the front line? The war? \u201cEh, we are not scared,\u201d one of them said. \u201cAfter what we have just been through, we might die but we cannot be scared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A local OCHA staff member meets with migrants and refugees at a former football stadium in Aden. Many tell stories of kidnapping, extortion and prolonged imprisonment.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Yemeni kidnappers demanded that their captives paid them 600 Ethiopian birr (around US$15). According to IOM, they were lucky: some migrants get extorted for more than $1,000. It took the young men\u2019s families about six days to gather the money and transfer it to Yemen. \u201cWhen they received the money, they released us, each by name,\u201d the elder Mohamed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, they were both continuing on. Where to, they didn\u2019t know exactly, but they would try Aden and then head north. What about the front line? The war? \u201cEh, we are not scared,\u201d one of them said. \u201cAfter what we have just been through, we might die but we cannot be scared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A local OCHA staff member meets with migrants and refugees at a former football stadium in Aden. Many tell stories of kidnapping, extortion and prolonged imprisonment.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Yemeni kidnappers demanded that their captives paid them 600 Ethiopian birr (around US$15). According to IOM, they were lucky: some migrants get extorted for more than $1,000. It took the young men\u2019s families about six days to gather the money and transfer it to Yemen. \u201cWhen they received the money, they released us, each by name,\u201d the elder Mohamed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, they were both continuing on. Where to, they didn\u2019t know exactly, but they would try Aden and then head north. What about the front line? The war? \u201cEh, we are not scared,\u201d one of them said. \u201cAfter what we have just been through, we might die but we cannot be scared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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East African men gather at a former football stadium in Aden. The stadium now serves as a well-known meeting place for migrants and refugees who are making their way through Yemen towards Saudi Arabia and beyond.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A local OCHA staff member meets with migrants and refugees at a former football stadium in Aden. Many tell stories of kidnapping, extortion and prolonged imprisonment.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Yemeni kidnappers demanded that their captives paid them 600 Ethiopian birr (around US$15). According to IOM, they were lucky: some migrants get extorted for more than $1,000. It took the young men\u2019s families about six days to gather the money and transfer it to Yemen. \u201cWhen they received the money, they released us, each by name,\u201d the elder Mohamed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, they were both continuing on. Where to, they didn\u2019t know exactly, but they would try Aden and then head north. What about the front line? The war? \u201cEh, we are not scared,\u201d one of them said. \u201cAfter what we have just been through, we might die but we cannot be scared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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East African men gather at a former football stadium in Aden. The stadium now serves as a well-known meeting place for migrants and refugees who are making their way through Yemen towards Saudi Arabia and beyond.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A local OCHA staff member meets with migrants and refugees at a former football stadium in Aden. Many tell stories of kidnapping, extortion and prolonged imprisonment.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Yemeni kidnappers demanded that their captives paid them 600 Ethiopian birr (around US$15). According to IOM, they were lucky: some migrants get extorted for more than $1,000. It took the young men\u2019s families about six days to gather the money and transfer it to Yemen. \u201cWhen they received the money, they released us, each by name,\u201d the elder Mohamed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, they were both continuing on. Where to, they didn\u2019t know exactly, but they would try Aden and then head north. What about the front line? The war? \u201cEh, we are not scared,\u201d one of them said. \u201cAfter what we have just been through, we might die but we cannot be scared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe were just being beaten, and there was nothing to think about except the beatings,\u201d the elder Mohamed continued. \u201cWe spent every day there fearing death.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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East African men gather at a former football stadium in Aden. The stadium now serves as a well-known meeting place for migrants and refugees who are making their way through Yemen towards Saudi Arabia and beyond.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A local OCHA staff member meets with migrants and refugees at a former football stadium in Aden. Many tell stories of kidnapping, extortion and prolonged imprisonment.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Yemeni kidnappers demanded that their captives paid them 600 Ethiopian birr (around US$15). According to IOM, they were lucky: some migrants get extorted for more than $1,000. It took the young men\u2019s families about six days to gather the money and transfer it to Yemen. \u201cWhen they received the money, they released us, each by name,\u201d the elder Mohamed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, they were both continuing on. Where to, they didn\u2019t know exactly, but they would try Aden and then head north. What about the front line? The war? \u201cEh, we are not scared,\u201d one of them said. \u201cAfter what we have just been through, we might die but we cannot be scared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201c\u2014and the butts of their rifles,\u201d added the younger Mohamed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were just being beaten, and there was nothing to think about except the beatings,\u201d the elder Mohamed continued. \u201cWe spent every day there fearing death.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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East African men gather at a former football stadium in Aden. The stadium now serves as a well-known meeting place for migrants and refugees who are making their way through Yemen towards Saudi Arabia and beyond.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A local OCHA staff member meets with migrants and refugees at a former football stadium in Aden. Many tell stories of kidnapping, extortion and prolonged imprisonment.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Yemeni kidnappers demanded that their captives paid them 600 Ethiopian birr (around US$15). According to IOM, they were lucky: some migrants get extorted for more than $1,000. It took the young men\u2019s families about six days to gather the money and transfer it to Yemen. \u201cWhen they received the money, they released us, each by name,\u201d the elder Mohamed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, they were both continuing on. Where to, they didn\u2019t know exactly, but they would try Aden and then head north. What about the front line? The war? \u201cEh, we are not scared,\u201d one of them said. \u201cAfter what we have just been through, we might die but we cannot be scared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe smugglers gave us mobile telephones to call our families, and they told us to transfer money to them,\u201d said the older Mohamed. \u201cDuring the time, they beat us, using long sticks\u2014\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2014and the butts of their rifles,\u201d added the younger Mohamed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were just being beaten, and there was nothing to think about except the beatings,\u201d the elder Mohamed continued. \u201cWe spent every day there fearing death.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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East African men gather at a former football stadium in Aden. The stadium now serves as a well-known meeting place for migrants and refugees who are making their way through Yemen towards Saudi Arabia and beyond.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A local OCHA staff member meets with migrants and refugees at a former football stadium in Aden. Many tell stories of kidnapping, extortion and prolonged imprisonment.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Yemeni kidnappers demanded that their captives paid them 600 Ethiopian birr (around US$15). According to IOM, they were lucky: some migrants get extorted for more than $1,000. It took the young men\u2019s families about six days to gather the money and transfer it to Yemen. \u201cWhen they received the money, they released us, each by name,\u201d the elder Mohamed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, they were both continuing on. Where to, they didn\u2019t know exactly, but they would try Aden and then head north. What about the front line? The war? \u201cEh, we are not scared,\u201d one of them said. \u201cAfter what we have just been through, we might die but we cannot be scared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A young Ethiopian man on a notorious smugglers\u2019 beach on Yemen\u2019s remote southern coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe smugglers gave us mobile telephones to call our families, and they told us to transfer money to them,\u201d said the older Mohamed. \u201cDuring the time, they beat us, using long sticks\u2014\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2014and the butts of their rifles,\u201d added the younger Mohamed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were just being beaten, and there was nothing to think about except the beatings,\u201d the elder Mohamed continued. \u201cWe spent every day there fearing death.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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East African men gather at a former football stadium in Aden. The stadium now serves as a well-known meeting place for migrants and refugees who are making their way through Yemen towards Saudi Arabia and beyond.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A local OCHA staff member meets with migrants and refugees at a former football stadium in Aden. Many tell stories of kidnapping, extortion and prolonged imprisonment.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Yemeni kidnappers demanded that their captives paid them 600 Ethiopian birr (around US$15). According to IOM, they were lucky: some migrants get extorted for more than $1,000. It took the young men\u2019s families about six days to gather the money and transfer it to Yemen. \u201cWhen they received the money, they released us, each by name,\u201d the elder Mohamed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, they were both continuing on. Where to, they didn\u2019t know exactly, but they would try Aden and then head north. What about the front line? The war? \u201cEh, we are not scared,\u201d one of them said. \u201cAfter what we have just been through, we might die but we cannot be scared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Yemen, migrants like the two Mohameds face kidnap, torture, detention and abuse by smugglers, armed groups and criminal gangs, who try to extort their already impoverished families. Kidnappers will get their captives to call their families and funnel more to their facilities, from where they promise to spirit the migrants to Saudi Arabia, but where they actually extort them for every penny they can find.\"A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young Ethiopian man on a notorious smugglers\u2019 beach on Yemen\u2019s remote southern coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe smugglers gave us mobile telephones to call our families, and they told us to transfer money to them,\u201d said the older Mohamed. \u201cDuring the time, they beat us, using long sticks\u2014\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2014and the butts of their rifles,\u201d added the younger Mohamed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were just being beaten, and there was nothing to think about except the beatings,\u201d the elder Mohamed continued. \u201cWe spent every day there fearing death.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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East African men gather at a former football stadium in Aden. The stadium now serves as a well-known meeting place for migrants and refugees who are making their way through Yemen towards Saudi Arabia and beyond.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A local OCHA staff member meets with migrants and refugees at a former football stadium in Aden. Many tell stories of kidnapping, extortion and prolonged imprisonment.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Yemeni kidnappers demanded that their captives paid them 600 Ethiopian birr (around US$15). According to IOM, they were lucky: some migrants get extorted for more than $1,000. It took the young men\u2019s families about six days to gather the money and transfer it to Yemen. \u201cWhen they received the money, they released us, each by name,\u201d the elder Mohamed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, they were both continuing on. Where to, they didn\u2019t know exactly, but they would try Aden and then head north. What about the front line? The war? \u201cEh, we are not scared,\u201d one of them said. \u201cAfter what we have just been through, we might die but we cannot be scared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The elder Mohamed started to tell the story of their first week in Yemen. Six days beforehand, after a sea journey that lasted around 12 hours, their boat landed just before dawn on the shore nearby. \u201cWe arrived on the boat, and immediately we were surrounded by men with guns,\u201d he said. \u201cThey demanded money and held us until we paid. Of the 60 who arrived, 54 are now free. There are still six people being held by them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Yemen, migrants like the two Mohameds face kidnap, torture, detention and abuse by smugglers, armed groups and criminal gangs, who try to extort their already impoverished families. Kidnappers will get their captives to call their families and funnel more to their facilities, from where they promise to spirit the migrants to Saudi Arabia, but where they actually extort them for every penny they can find.\"A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young Ethiopian man on a notorious smugglers\u2019 beach on Yemen\u2019s remote southern coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe smugglers gave us mobile telephones to call our families, and they told us to transfer money to them,\u201d said the older Mohamed. \u201cDuring the time, they beat us, using long sticks\u2014\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2014and the butts of their rifles,\u201d added the younger Mohamed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were just being beaten, and there was nothing to think about except the beatings,\u201d the elder Mohamed continued. \u201cWe spent every day there fearing death.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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East African men gather at a former football stadium in Aden. The stadium now serves as a well-known meeting place for migrants and refugees who are making their way through Yemen towards Saudi Arabia and beyond.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A local OCHA staff member meets with migrants and refugees at a former football stadium in Aden. Many tell stories of kidnapping, extortion and prolonged imprisonment.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Yemeni kidnappers demanded that their captives paid them 600 Ethiopian birr (around US$15). According to IOM, they were lucky: some migrants get extorted for more than $1,000. It took the young men\u2019s families about six days to gather the money and transfer it to Yemen. \u201cWhen they received the money, they released us, each by name,\u201d the elder Mohamed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, they were both continuing on. Where to, they didn\u2019t know exactly, but they would try Aden and then head north. What about the front line? The war? \u201cEh, we are not scared,\u201d one of them said. \u201cAfter what we have just been through, we might die but we cannot be scared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[83]<\/a> http:\/\/ibiworld.eu\/2021\/01\/07\/la-philip-morris-va-alla-guerra-alleata-a-suprematisti-populisti-e-sceicchi-arabi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[84]<\/a> https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/officers\/MVXMVXIlHAjSuuhqCXQ9bZCcDrk\/appointments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[86]<\/a> 2018.09.17 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[87]<\/a> 2020.12.08 Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[88]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mihajlopopesku\/?originalSubdomain=uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[89]<\/a> 2019.06.19 Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[90]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/chart-scl-and-cambridge-analytica-active-and-related-companies-2020-6f38e2e3100c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Both Mohameds were friends, and they decided to leave when an older man told them they could find work abroad. He introduced them to a smuggler, who agreed to take them through Djibouti and across the sea to Yemen. They said it was unclear to them where they would find work, but they\u2019d heard that work was abundant in Yemen. (According to IOM, the vast majority of migrants hope to go to Saudi Arabia.) They did not understand that the country was in the middle of a civil war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The elder Mohamed started to tell the story of their first week in Yemen. Six days beforehand, after a sea journey that lasted around 12 hours, their boat landed just before dawn on the shore nearby. \u201cWe arrived on the boat, and immediately we were surrounded by men with guns,\u201d he said. \u201cThey demanded money and held us until we paid. Of the 60 who arrived, 54 are now free. There are still six people being held by them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Yemen, migrants like the two Mohameds face kidnap, torture, detention and abuse by smugglers, armed groups and criminal gangs, who try to extort their already impoverished families. Kidnappers will get their captives to call their families and funnel more to their facilities, from where they promise to spirit the migrants to Saudi Arabia, but where they actually extort them for every penny they can find.\"A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young Ethiopian man on a notorious smugglers\u2019 beach on Yemen\u2019s remote southern coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe smugglers gave us mobile telephones to call our families, and they told us to transfer money to them,\u201d said the older Mohamed. \u201cDuring the time, they beat us, using long sticks\u2014\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2014and the butts of their rifles,\u201d added the younger Mohamed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were just being beaten, and there was nothing to think about except the beatings,\u201d the elder Mohamed continued. \u201cWe spent every day there fearing death.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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East African men gather at a former football stadium in Aden. The stadium now serves as a well-known meeting place for migrants and refugees who are making their way through Yemen towards Saudi Arabia and beyond.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A local OCHA staff member meets with migrants and refugees at a former football stadium in Aden. Many tell stories of kidnapping, extortion and prolonged imprisonment.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Yemeni kidnappers demanded that their captives paid them 600 Ethiopian birr (around US$15). According to IOM, they were lucky: some migrants get extorted for more than $1,000. It took the young men\u2019s families about six days to gather the money and transfer it to Yemen. \u201cWhen they received the money, they released us, each by name,\u201d the elder Mohamed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, they were both continuing on. Where to, they didn\u2019t know exactly, but they would try Aden and then head north. What about the front line? The war? \u201cEh, we are not scared,\u201d one of them said. \u201cAfter what we have just been through, we might die but we cannot be scared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[56]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180324041614\/https:\/\/ca-political.com\/news\/timeline-events<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When the two men finished the water and high-energy biscuits provided by the mobile team, they began to tell their stories. They had both been in high school in central Ethiopia, but their school had closed because of the increasing tensions between different ethnic groups in their town, they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both Mohameds were friends, and they decided to leave when an older man told them they could find work abroad. He introduced them to a smuggler, who agreed to take them through Djibouti and across the sea to Yemen. They said it was unclear to them where they would find work, but they\u2019d heard that work was abundant in Yemen. (According to IOM, the vast majority of migrants hope to go to Saudi Arabia.) They did not understand that the country was in the middle of a civil war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The elder Mohamed started to tell the story of their first week in Yemen. Six days beforehand, after a sea journey that lasted around 12 hours, their boat landed just before dawn on the shore nearby. \u201cWe arrived on the boat, and immediately we were surrounded by men with guns,\u201d he said. \u201cThey demanded money and held us until we paid. Of the 60 who arrived, 54 are now free. There are still six people being held by them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Yemen, migrants like the two Mohameds face kidnap, torture, detention and abuse by smugglers, armed groups and criminal gangs, who try to extort their already impoverished families. Kidnappers will get their captives to call their families and funnel more to their facilities, from where they promise to spirit the migrants to Saudi Arabia, but where they actually extort them for every penny they can find.\"A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young Ethiopian man on a notorious smugglers\u2019 beach on Yemen\u2019s remote southern coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe smugglers gave us mobile telephones to call our families, and they told us to transfer money to them,\u201d said the older Mohamed. \u201cDuring the time, they beat us, using long sticks\u2014\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2014and the butts of their rifles,\u201d added the younger Mohamed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were just being beaten, and there was nothing to think about except the beatings,\u201d the elder Mohamed continued. \u201cWe spent every day there fearing death.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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East African men gather at a former football stadium in Aden. The stadium now serves as a well-known meeting place for migrants and refugees who are making their way through Yemen towards Saudi Arabia and beyond.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A local OCHA staff member meets with migrants and refugees at a former football stadium in Aden. Many tell stories of kidnapping, extortion and prolonged imprisonment.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Yemeni kidnappers demanded that their captives paid them 600 Ethiopian birr (around US$15). According to IOM, they were lucky: some migrants get extorted for more than $1,000. It took the young men\u2019s families about six days to gather the money and transfer it to Yemen. \u201cWhen they received the money, they released us, each by name,\u201d the elder Mohamed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, they were both continuing on. Where to, they didn\u2019t know exactly, but they would try Aden and then head north. What about the front line? The war? \u201cEh, we are not scared,\u201d one of them said. \u201cAfter what we have just been through, we might die but we cannot be scared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[58]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[63]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[73]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[75]<\/a> https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/mueller-evidence-raising-questions-prince-testimony-meeting-russian\/story?id=54277090<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[76]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[77]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking\/2017\/01\/12\/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html?utm_term=.72af02c26db1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[79]<\/a> https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Exhibit-AB-20171006-1.pdf<\/a> ; https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[80]<\/a> https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/revealed-facebook-data-harvesters-links-us-and-uk-counter-extremism-campaigns<\/a> ; https:\/\/efile.fara.gov\/docs\/6473-Informational-Materials-20171013-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[81]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[82]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.startmag.it\/innovazione\/cambridge-analytica-emerdata\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_chiude_dati-3854178\/news\/2018-05-04\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=1<\/a> ; https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/10911848\/filing-history?page=2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ras al-Ara is a small windswept town known for its fishing and for its smugglers. Many boats transporting migrants and refugees land there because of its proximity to the Djiboutian coast. Recently, just outside town, two slender young men from central Ethiopia in red T-shirts, both named Mohamed, were ambling along the cracked tarmac, seemingly stunned by the blaring sun. Around 60 migrants had arrived in the last few days, according to a worker for the UN\u2019s International Organization for Migration (IOM). One of the young men was 17 and the other 18. They were both from Oromia, a region that UNICEF says has the highest number of children living in poverty in Ethiopia, and they were both hungry. (According to IOM monitoring, the vast majority of migrants on this route are Oromo.) An IOM mobile team, tasked with providing emergency and medical support to people along the way, stopped to give them food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the two men finished the water and high-energy biscuits provided by the mobile team, they began to tell their stories. They had both been in high school in central Ethiopia, but their school had closed because of the increasing tensions between different ethnic groups in their town, they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both Mohameds were friends, and they decided to leave when an older man told them they could find work abroad. He introduced them to a smuggler, who agreed to take them through Djibouti and across the sea to Yemen. They said it was unclear to them where they would find work, but they\u2019d heard that work was abundant in Yemen. (According to IOM, the vast majority of migrants hope to go to Saudi Arabia.) They did not understand that the country was in the middle of a civil war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The elder Mohamed started to tell the story of their first week in Yemen. Six days beforehand, after a sea journey that lasted around 12 hours, their boat landed just before dawn on the shore nearby. \u201cWe arrived on the boat, and immediately we were surrounded by men with guns,\u201d he said. \u201cThey demanded money and held us until we paid. Of the 60 who arrived, 54 are now free. There are still six people being held by them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Yemen, migrants like the two Mohameds face kidnap, torture, detention and abuse by smugglers, armed groups and criminal gangs, who try to extort their already impoverished families. Kidnappers will get their captives to call their families and funnel more to their facilities, from where they promise to spirit the migrants to Saudi Arabia, but where they actually extort them for every penny they can find.\"A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young Ethiopian man on a notorious smugglers\u2019 beach on Yemen\u2019s remote southern coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe smugglers gave us mobile telephones to call our families, and they told us to transfer money to them,\u201d said the older Mohamed. \u201cDuring the time, they beat us, using long sticks\u2014\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2014and the butts of their rifles,\u201d added the younger Mohamed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were just being beaten, and there was nothing to think about except the beatings,\u201d the elder Mohamed continued. \u201cWe spent every day there fearing death.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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East African men gather at a former football stadium in Aden. The stadium now serves as a well-known meeting place for migrants and refugees who are making their way through Yemen towards Saudi Arabia and beyond.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A local OCHA staff member meets with migrants and refugees at a former football stadium in Aden. Many tell stories of kidnapping, extortion and prolonged imprisonment.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Yemeni kidnappers demanded that their captives paid them 600 Ethiopian birr (around US$15). According to IOM, they were lucky: some migrants get extorted for more than $1,000. It took the young men\u2019s families about six days to gather the money and transfer it to Yemen. \u201cWhen they received the money, they released us, each by name,\u201d the elder Mohamed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, they were both continuing on. Where to, they didn\u2019t know exactly, but they would try Aden and then head north. What about the front line? The war? \u201cEh, we are not scared,\u201d one of them said. \u201cAfter what we have just been through, we might die but we cannot be scared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These lonely figures in the burning desert are some of the tens of thousands of East African migrants and refugees \u2014 mainly from Ethiopia and Somalia \u2014 who head north, braving the dangers of war-torn Yemen in search of a better life in Saudi Arabia. They are part of \u201cone of the great unseen humanitarian crises of our era,\u201d as an international aid worker in Aden put it recently. They have arrived in rickety, overcrowded dhows from smuggling ports in Djibouti and Somalia, yet they count themselves the lucky ones. That\u2019s because they have often seen their fellow travellers dead of thirst in the deserts of East Africa, and because many of the boats sink in the choppy, shark-infested waters of the straits that lie between Africa and the Middle East. In 2018, there were 274 recorded deaths on such dhows, but without proper registration and tracking that number is surely much higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ras al-Ara is a small windswept town known for its fishing and for its smugglers. Many boats transporting migrants and refugees land there because of its proximity to the Djiboutian coast. Recently, just outside town, two slender young men from central Ethiopia in red T-shirts, both named Mohamed, were ambling along the cracked tarmac, seemingly stunned by the blaring sun. Around 60 migrants had arrived in the last few days, according to a worker for the UN\u2019s International Organization for Migration (IOM). One of the young men was 17 and the other 18. They were both from Oromia, a region that UNICEF says has the highest number of children living in poverty in Ethiopia, and they were both hungry. (According to IOM monitoring, the vast majority of migrants on this route are Oromo.) An IOM mobile team, tasked with providing emergency and medical support to people along the way, stopped to give them food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the two men finished the water and high-energy biscuits provided by the mobile team, they began to tell their stories. They had both been in high school in central Ethiopia, but their school had closed because of the increasing tensions between different ethnic groups in their town, they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both Mohameds were friends, and they decided to leave when an older man told them they could find work abroad. He introduced them to a smuggler, who agreed to take them through Djibouti and across the sea to Yemen. They said it was unclear to them where they would find work, but they\u2019d heard that work was abundant in Yemen. (According to IOM, the vast majority of migrants hope to go to Saudi Arabia.) They did not understand that the country was in the middle of a civil war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The elder Mohamed started to tell the story of their first week in Yemen. Six days beforehand, after a sea journey that lasted around 12 hours, their boat landed just before dawn on the shore nearby. \u201cWe arrived on the boat, and immediately we were surrounded by men with guns,\u201d he said. \u201cThey demanded money and held us until we paid. Of the 60 who arrived, 54 are now free. There are still six people being held by them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Yemen, migrants like the two Mohameds face kidnap, torture, detention and abuse by smugglers, armed groups and criminal gangs, who try to extort their already impoverished families. Kidnappers will get their captives to call their families and funnel more to their facilities, from where they promise to spirit the migrants to Saudi Arabia, but where they actually extort them for every penny they can find.\"A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young Ethiopian man on a notorious smugglers\u2019 beach on Yemen\u2019s remote southern coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe smugglers gave us mobile telephones to call our families, and they told us to transfer money to them,\u201d said the older Mohamed. \u201cDuring the time, they beat us, using long sticks\u2014\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2014and the butts of their rifles,\u201d added the younger Mohamed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were just being beaten, and there was nothing to think about except the beatings,\u201d the elder Mohamed continued. \u201cWe spent every day there fearing death.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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East African men gather at a former football stadium in Aden. The stadium now serves as a well-known meeting place for migrants and refugees who are making their way through Yemen towards Saudi Arabia and beyond.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A local OCHA staff member meets with migrants and refugees at a former football stadium in Aden. Many tell stories of kidnapping, extortion and prolonged imprisonment.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Yemeni kidnappers demanded that their captives paid them 600 Ethiopian birr (around US$15). According to IOM, they were lucky: some migrants get extorted for more than $1,000. It took the young men\u2019s families about six days to gather the money and transfer it to Yemen. \u201cWhen they received the money, they released us, each by name,\u201d the elder Mohamed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, they were both continuing on. Where to, they didn\u2019t know exactly, but they would try Aden and then head north. What about the front line? The war? \u201cEh, we are not scared,\u201d one of them said. \u201cAfter what we have just been through, we might die but we cannot be scared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[59]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two Ethiopian men, aged 15 and 17, walk the long road towards Aden from Ras-al-Ara, some 150 km to the east. They arrived a week earlier from Djibouti by smuggler boat.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

These lonely figures in the burning desert are some of the tens of thousands of East African migrants and refugees \u2014 mainly from Ethiopia and Somalia \u2014 who head north, braving the dangers of war-torn Yemen in search of a better life in Saudi Arabia. They are part of \u201cone of the great unseen humanitarian crises of our era,\u201d as an international aid worker in Aden put it recently. They have arrived in rickety, overcrowded dhows from smuggling ports in Djibouti and Somalia, yet they count themselves the lucky ones. That\u2019s because they have often seen their fellow travellers dead of thirst in the deserts of East Africa, and because many of the boats sink in the choppy, shark-infested waters of the straits that lie between Africa and the Middle East. In 2018, there were 274 recorded deaths on such dhows, but without proper registration and tracking that number is surely much higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ras al-Ara is a small windswept town known for its fishing and for its smugglers. Many boats transporting migrants and refugees land there because of its proximity to the Djiboutian coast. Recently, just outside town, two slender young men from central Ethiopia in red T-shirts, both named Mohamed, were ambling along the cracked tarmac, seemingly stunned by the blaring sun. Around 60 migrants had arrived in the last few days, according to a worker for the UN\u2019s International Organization for Migration (IOM). One of the young men was 17 and the other 18. They were both from Oromia, a region that UNICEF says has the highest number of children living in poverty in Ethiopia, and they were both hungry. (According to IOM monitoring, the vast majority of migrants on this route are Oromo.) An IOM mobile team, tasked with providing emergency and medical support to people along the way, stopped to give them food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the two men finished the water and high-energy biscuits provided by the mobile team, they began to tell their stories. They had both been in high school in central Ethiopia, but their school had closed because of the increasing tensions between different ethnic groups in their town, they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both Mohameds were friends, and they decided to leave when an older man told them they could find work abroad. He introduced them to a smuggler, who agreed to take them through Djibouti and across the sea to Yemen. They said it was unclear to them where they would find work, but they\u2019d heard that work was abundant in Yemen. (According to IOM, the vast majority of migrants hope to go to Saudi Arabia.) They did not understand that the country was in the middle of a civil war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The elder Mohamed started to tell the story of their first week in Yemen. Six days beforehand, after a sea journey that lasted around 12 hours, their boat landed just before dawn on the shore nearby. \u201cWe arrived on the boat, and immediately we were surrounded by men with guns,\u201d he said. \u201cThey demanded money and held us until we paid. Of the 60 who arrived, 54 are now free. There are still six people being held by them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Yemen, migrants like the two Mohameds face kidnap, torture, detention and abuse by smugglers, armed groups and criminal gangs, who try to extort their already impoverished families. Kidnappers will get their captives to call their families and funnel more to their facilities, from where they promise to spirit the migrants to Saudi Arabia, but where they actually extort them for every penny they can find.\"A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young Ethiopian man on a notorious smugglers\u2019 beach on Yemen\u2019s remote southern coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe smugglers gave us mobile telephones to call our families, and they told us to transfer money to them,\u201d said the older Mohamed. \u201cDuring the time, they beat us, using long sticks\u2014\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2014and the butts of their rifles,\u201d added the younger Mohamed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were just being beaten, and there was nothing to think about except the beatings,\u201d the elder Mohamed continued. \u201cWe spent every day there fearing death.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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East African men gather at a former football stadium in Aden. The stadium now serves as a well-known meeting place for migrants and refugees who are making their way through Yemen towards Saudi Arabia and beyond.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A local OCHA staff member meets with migrants and refugees at a former football stadium in Aden. Many tell stories of kidnapping, extortion and prolonged imprisonment.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Yemeni kidnappers demanded that their captives paid them 600 Ethiopian birr (around US$15). According to IOM, they were lucky: some migrants get extorted for more than $1,000. It took the young men\u2019s families about six days to gather the money and transfer it to Yemen. \u201cWhen they received the money, they released us, each by name,\u201d the elder Mohamed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, they were both continuing on. Where to, they didn\u2019t know exactly, but they would try Aden and then head north. What about the front line? The war? \u201cEh, we are not scared,\u201d one of them said. \u201cAfter what we have just been through, we might die but we cannot be scared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The road from Ras al-Ara to the port city of Aden, in southern Yemen, runs for almost 90 miles through barren, windswept desert. The landscape is scorched by the sun, and temperatures often teeter around 40\u00b0C. Reminders of Yemen\u2019s complex six-year-old war abound: burned-out tanks litter the roadways and stern fighters man checkpoints. Occasionally, along the road, you\u2019ll see small clusters of people\u2014mainly young men\u2014making the arduous trek towards some dimly glimpsed point on the horizon, often carrying only a bottle of water and wearing only flip-flops on their feet.\"Two<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two Ethiopian men, aged 15 and 17, walk the long road towards Aden from Ras-al-Ara, some 150 km to the east. They arrived a week earlier from Djibouti by smuggler boat.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

These lonely figures in the burning desert are some of the tens of thousands of East African migrants and refugees \u2014 mainly from Ethiopia and Somalia \u2014 who head north, braving the dangers of war-torn Yemen in search of a better life in Saudi Arabia. They are part of \u201cone of the great unseen humanitarian crises of our era,\u201d as an international aid worker in Aden put it recently. They have arrived in rickety, overcrowded dhows from smuggling ports in Djibouti and Somalia, yet they count themselves the lucky ones. That\u2019s because they have often seen their fellow travellers dead of thirst in the deserts of East Africa, and because many of the boats sink in the choppy, shark-infested waters of the straits that lie between Africa and the Middle East. In 2018, there were 274 recorded deaths on such dhows, but without proper registration and tracking that number is surely much higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ras al-Ara is a small windswept town known for its fishing and for its smugglers. Many boats transporting migrants and refugees land there because of its proximity to the Djiboutian coast. Recently, just outside town, two slender young men from central Ethiopia in red T-shirts, both named Mohamed, were ambling along the cracked tarmac, seemingly stunned by the blaring sun. Around 60 migrants had arrived in the last few days, according to a worker for the UN\u2019s International Organization for Migration (IOM). One of the young men was 17 and the other 18. They were both from Oromia, a region that UNICEF says has the highest number of children living in poverty in Ethiopia, and they were both hungry. (According to IOM monitoring, the vast majority of migrants on this route are Oromo.) An IOM mobile team, tasked with providing emergency and medical support to people along the way, stopped to give them food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the two men finished the water and high-energy biscuits provided by the mobile team, they began to tell their stories. They had both been in high school in central Ethiopia, but their school had closed because of the increasing tensions between different ethnic groups in their town, they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both Mohameds were friends, and they decided to leave when an older man told them they could find work abroad. He introduced them to a smuggler, who agreed to take them through Djibouti and across the sea to Yemen. They said it was unclear to them where they would find work, but they\u2019d heard that work was abundant in Yemen. (According to IOM, the vast majority of migrants hope to go to Saudi Arabia.) They did not understand that the country was in the middle of a civil war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The elder Mohamed started to tell the story of their first week in Yemen. Six days beforehand, after a sea journey that lasted around 12 hours, their boat landed just before dawn on the shore nearby. \u201cWe arrived on the boat, and immediately we were surrounded by men with guns,\u201d he said. \u201cThey demanded money and held us until we paid. Of the 60 who arrived, 54 are now free. There are still six people being held by them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Yemen, migrants like the two Mohameds face kidnap, torture, detention and abuse by smugglers, armed groups and criminal gangs, who try to extort their already impoverished families. Kidnappers will get their captives to call their families and funnel more to their facilities, from where they promise to spirit the migrants to Saudi Arabia, but where they actually extort them for every penny they can find.\"A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young Ethiopian man on a notorious smugglers\u2019 beach on Yemen\u2019s remote southern coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe smugglers gave us mobile telephones to call our families, and they told us to transfer money to them,\u201d said the older Mohamed. \u201cDuring the time, they beat us, using long sticks\u2014\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2014and the butts of their rifles,\u201d added the younger Mohamed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were just being beaten, and there was nothing to think about except the beatings,\u201d the elder Mohamed continued. \u201cWe spent every day there fearing death.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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East African men gather at a former football stadium in Aden. The stadium now serves as a well-known meeting place for migrants and refugees who are making their way through Yemen towards Saudi Arabia and beyond.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A local OCHA staff member meets with migrants and refugees at a former football stadium in Aden. Many tell stories of kidnapping, extortion and prolonged imprisonment.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Yemeni kidnappers demanded that their captives paid them 600 Ethiopian birr (around US$15). According to IOM, they were lucky: some migrants get extorted for more than $1,000. It took the young men\u2019s families about six days to gather the money and transfer it to Yemen. \u201cWhen they received the money, they released us, each by name,\u201d the elder Mohamed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, they were both continuing on. Where to, they didn\u2019t know exactly, but they would try Aden and then head north. What about the front line? The war? \u201cEh, we are not scared,\u201d one of them said. \u201cAfter what we have just been through, we might die but we cannot be scared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and Refugees in Yemen<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The road from Ras al-Ara to the port city of Aden, in southern Yemen, runs for almost 90 miles through barren, windswept desert. The landscape is scorched by the sun, and temperatures often teeter around 40\u00b0C. Reminders of Yemen\u2019s complex six-year-old war abound: burned-out tanks litter the roadways and stern fighters man checkpoints. Occasionally, along the road, you\u2019ll see small clusters of people\u2014mainly young men\u2014making the arduous trek towards some dimly glimpsed point on the horizon, often carrying only a bottle of water and wearing only flip-flops on their feet.\"Two<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two Ethiopian men, aged 15 and 17, walk the long road towards Aden from Ras-al-Ara, some 150 km to the east. They arrived a week earlier from Djibouti by smuggler boat.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

These lonely figures in the burning desert are some of the tens of thousands of East African migrants and refugees \u2014 mainly from Ethiopia and Somalia \u2014 who head north, braving the dangers of war-torn Yemen in search of a better life in Saudi Arabia. They are part of \u201cone of the great unseen humanitarian crises of our era,\u201d as an international aid worker in Aden put it recently. They have arrived in rickety, overcrowded dhows from smuggling ports in Djibouti and Somalia, yet they count themselves the lucky ones. That\u2019s because they have often seen their fellow travellers dead of thirst in the deserts of East Africa, and because many of the boats sink in the choppy, shark-infested waters of the straits that lie between Africa and the Middle East. In 2018, there were 274 recorded deaths on such dhows, but without proper registration and tracking that number is surely much higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ras al-Ara is a small windswept town known for its fishing and for its smugglers. Many boats transporting migrants and refugees land there because of its proximity to the Djiboutian coast. Recently, just outside town, two slender young men from central Ethiopia in red T-shirts, both named Mohamed, were ambling along the cracked tarmac, seemingly stunned by the blaring sun. Around 60 migrants had arrived in the last few days, according to a worker for the UN\u2019s International Organization for Migration (IOM). One of the young men was 17 and the other 18. They were both from Oromia, a region that UNICEF says has the highest number of children living in poverty in Ethiopia, and they were both hungry. (According to IOM monitoring, the vast majority of migrants on this route are Oromo.) An IOM mobile team, tasked with providing emergency and medical support to people along the way, stopped to give them food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the two men finished the water and high-energy biscuits provided by the mobile team, they began to tell their stories. They had both been in high school in central Ethiopia, but their school had closed because of the increasing tensions between different ethnic groups in their town, they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both Mohameds were friends, and they decided to leave when an older man told them they could find work abroad. He introduced them to a smuggler, who agreed to take them through Djibouti and across the sea to Yemen. They said it was unclear to them where they would find work, but they\u2019d heard that work was abundant in Yemen. (According to IOM, the vast majority of migrants hope to go to Saudi Arabia.) They did not understand that the country was in the middle of a civil war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The elder Mohamed started to tell the story of their first week in Yemen. Six days beforehand, after a sea journey that lasted around 12 hours, their boat landed just before dawn on the shore nearby. \u201cWe arrived on the boat, and immediately we were surrounded by men with guns,\u201d he said. \u201cThey demanded money and held us until we paid. Of the 60 who arrived, 54 are now free. There are still six people being held by them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Yemen, migrants like the two Mohameds face kidnap, torture, detention and abuse by smugglers, armed groups and criminal gangs, who try to extort their already impoverished families. Kidnappers will get their captives to call their families and funnel more to their facilities, from where they promise to spirit the migrants to Saudi Arabia, but where they actually extort them for every penny they can find.\"A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young Ethiopian man on a notorious smugglers\u2019 beach on Yemen\u2019s remote southern coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe smugglers gave us mobile telephones to call our families, and they told us to transfer money to them,\u201d said the older Mohamed. \u201cDuring the time, they beat us, using long sticks\u2014\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2014and the butts of their rifles,\u201d added the younger Mohamed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were just being beaten, and there was nothing to think about except the beatings,\u201d the elder Mohamed continued. \u201cWe spent every day there fearing death.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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East African men gather at a former football stadium in Aden. The stadium now serves as a well-known meeting place for migrants and refugees who are making their way through Yemen towards Saudi Arabia and beyond.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A local OCHA staff member meets with migrants and refugees at a former football stadium in Aden. Many tell stories of kidnapping, extortion and prolonged imprisonment.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Yemeni kidnappers demanded that their captives paid them 600 Ethiopian birr (around US$15). According to IOM, they were lucky: some migrants get extorted for more than $1,000. It took the young men\u2019s families about six days to gather the money and transfer it to Yemen. \u201cWhen they received the money, they released us, each by name,\u201d the elder Mohamed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, they were both continuing on. Where to, they didn\u2019t know exactly, but they would try Aden and then head north. What about the front line? The war? \u201cEh, we are not scared,\u201d one of them said. \u201cAfter what we have just been through, we might die but we cannot be scared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and Refugees in Yemen<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The road from Ras al-Ara to the port city of Aden, in southern Yemen, runs for almost 90 miles through barren, windswept desert. The landscape is scorched by the sun, and temperatures often teeter around 40\u00b0C. Reminders of Yemen\u2019s complex six-year-old war abound: burned-out tanks litter the roadways and stern fighters man checkpoints. Occasionally, along the road, you\u2019ll see small clusters of people\u2014mainly young men\u2014making the arduous trek towards some dimly glimpsed point on the horizon, often carrying only a bottle of water and wearing only flip-flops on their feet.\"Two<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two Ethiopian men, aged 15 and 17, walk the long road towards Aden from Ras-al-Ara, some 150 km to the east. They arrived a week earlier from Djibouti by smuggler boat.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

These lonely figures in the burning desert are some of the tens of thousands of East African migrants and refugees \u2014 mainly from Ethiopia and Somalia \u2014 who head north, braving the dangers of war-torn Yemen in search of a better life in Saudi Arabia. They are part of \u201cone of the great unseen humanitarian crises of our era,\u201d as an international aid worker in Aden put it recently. They have arrived in rickety, overcrowded dhows from smuggling ports in Djibouti and Somalia, yet they count themselves the lucky ones. That\u2019s because they have often seen their fellow travellers dead of thirst in the deserts of East Africa, and because many of the boats sink in the choppy, shark-infested waters of the straits that lie between Africa and the Middle East. In 2018, there were 274 recorded deaths on such dhows, but without proper registration and tracking that number is surely much higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ras al-Ara is a small windswept town known for its fishing and for its smugglers. Many boats transporting migrants and refugees land there because of its proximity to the Djiboutian coast. Recently, just outside town, two slender young men from central Ethiopia in red T-shirts, both named Mohamed, were ambling along the cracked tarmac, seemingly stunned by the blaring sun. Around 60 migrants had arrived in the last few days, according to a worker for the UN\u2019s International Organization for Migration (IOM). One of the young men was 17 and the other 18. They were both from Oromia, a region that UNICEF says has the highest number of children living in poverty in Ethiopia, and they were both hungry. (According to IOM monitoring, the vast majority of migrants on this route are Oromo.) An IOM mobile team, tasked with providing emergency and medical support to people along the way, stopped to give them food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the two men finished the water and high-energy biscuits provided by the mobile team, they began to tell their stories. They had both been in high school in central Ethiopia, but their school had closed because of the increasing tensions between different ethnic groups in their town, they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both Mohameds were friends, and they decided to leave when an older man told them they could find work abroad. He introduced them to a smuggler, who agreed to take them through Djibouti and across the sea to Yemen. They said it was unclear to them where they would find work, but they\u2019d heard that work was abundant in Yemen. (According to IOM, the vast majority of migrants hope to go to Saudi Arabia.) They did not understand that the country was in the middle of a civil war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The elder Mohamed started to tell the story of their first week in Yemen. Six days beforehand, after a sea journey that lasted around 12 hours, their boat landed just before dawn on the shore nearby. \u201cWe arrived on the boat, and immediately we were surrounded by men with guns,\u201d he said. \u201cThey demanded money and held us until we paid. Of the 60 who arrived, 54 are now free. There are still six people being held by them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Yemen, migrants like the two Mohameds face kidnap, torture, detention and abuse by smugglers, armed groups and criminal gangs, who try to extort their already impoverished families. Kidnappers will get their captives to call their families and funnel more to their facilities, from where they promise to spirit the migrants to Saudi Arabia, but where they actually extort them for every penny they can find.\"A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A young Ethiopian man on a notorious smugglers\u2019 beach on Yemen\u2019s remote southern coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe smugglers gave us mobile telephones to call our families, and they told us to transfer money to them,\u201d said the older Mohamed. \u201cDuring the time, they beat us, using long sticks\u2014\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2014and the butts of their rifles,\u201d added the younger Mohamed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were just being beaten, and there was nothing to think about except the beatings,\u201d the elder Mohamed continued. \u201cWe spent every day there fearing death.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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East African men gather at a former football stadium in Aden. The stadium now serves as a well-known meeting place for migrants and refugees who are making their way through Yemen towards Saudi Arabia and beyond.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A local OCHA staff member meets with migrants and refugees at a former football stadium in Aden. Many tell stories of kidnapping, extortion and prolonged imprisonment.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Yemeni kidnappers demanded that their captives paid them 600 Ethiopian birr (around US$15). According to IOM, they were lucky: some migrants get extorted for more than $1,000. It took the young men\u2019s families about six days to gather the money and transfer it to Yemen. \u201cWhen they received the money, they released us, each by name,\u201d the elder Mohamed said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, they were both continuing on. Where to, they didn\u2019t know exactly, but they would try Aden and then head north. What about the front line? The war? \u201cEh, we are not scared,\u201d one of them said. \u201cAfter what we have just been through, we might die but we cannot be scared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migrants and refugees next to a former football stadium in Aden.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In early March, the suffering of East African migrants in Yemen briefly made headlines after a migrant detention centre, run by the authorities in Sana\u2019a, was set ablaze. The centre can accommodate only 300 people, but at that time it held a staggering 900 people. Around 350 migrants were crammed into close, jail-like conditions in a hangar area, and they began protesting their treatment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a special team called in by the regular guards fired three tear gas canisters into the centre, it caught alight. The detainees were trapped. At least 45 migrants died and more than 200 were injured. One migrant told Human Rights Watch that he saw his fellow inmates \u201croasted alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With conditions so bad in Yemen, it\u2019s worth asking why so many migrants and refugees brave the journey. An answer lies in economics\u2014a recent IOM study found<\/a> that many migrants made just over $60 a month at home, whereas their counterparts could earn more than $450 working menial jobs in Saudi Arabia. \u201cThere\u2019s no work, no money in Ethiopia,\u201d said one of the Mohameds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But is the risk worth it? Some migrants don\u2019t understand the risks they are undertaking, at least when they set off from Ethiopia. The recent IOM study found that only 30 per cent of Ethiopian migrants surveyed arriving in Djibouti knew that there was a war in Yemen. In smuggling ports in Djibouti and elsewhere, IOM-led sensitization and return programmes try to ensure that before the migrants board the boats to Yemen, they do understand the dangers they will face as they travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even after sensitization, and the realization that there is a civil war in Yemen, migrants still decide to make the journey. Some are assured by smugglers at home that everything will be taken care of\u2014only to end up kidnapped or stuck at the Saudi border; some mistakenly believe that the instability will allow them to cross Yemen with greater ease; and others merely assume the risk. As one migrant recently put it: \u201cWe are already living in death in Ethiopia.\u201d\"Boots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boots outside a tent in a settlement on the outskirts of Marib in central Yemen. Well-made boots are an expensive and precious commodity for most migrants and refugees.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A Government-supported settlement in Marib City. To qualify for free tents and water, these migrants work as street sweepers in the city as well as receiving a nominal sum from city officials. Many migrants are travelling through Yemen and heading for Saudi Arabia, where work opportunities can be better.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the best answer to the question of why people decide to make such a perilous journey comes from history. Human beings have travelled along this route since the days of mankind\u2019s earliest journeys. It is most probably the path over which, 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa and went on to populate the world. People probably always will find a way to continue migrating along this path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The difference now is that for the past few years, many more people are deciding to make the trip because of the dire economic situation in the region, which is fuelled by drought and war. According to IOM, the number of people making the trip almost doubled between 2014 and 2019. Two years ago, 138,000 irregular migrants travelled from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, and even though pandemic-related concerns deterred a number of people from making the trip in 2020, some 37,500 migrants still landed in Yemen last year. More than 32,000 migrants are believed to be currently trapped in Yemen. IOM\u2019s programme to voluntarily return people who have become stuck on the migrant trail has also been stymied by border closures. The result is an intensifying and largely invisible humanitarian crisis in a country fraught with crises\u2014at least 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance, and 17 million are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitting on a low wall, East African men wait to be checked by an IOM mobile medical team after having just arrived from northern Africa by smuggler boats.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The dearth of funding for the UN\u2019s Yemen response threatens the already limited essential services IOM is able to provide for these people. \u201cMigrants are among the most vulnerable people in Yemen, with the least amount of support,\u201d said Olivia Headon, IOM Yemen\u2019s spokesperson. \u201cThis isn\u2019t surprising, given the scale of the crisis and the sheer level of needs across Yemen, but more support is needed for this group. It\u2019s really concerning that we have over 32,000 stranded migrants across the country without access to the most basic necessities like food, water, shelter and health care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near Ras al-Ara, the IOM mobile team set up a clinic to tend to migrants. The migrants can be stuck in the region for months\u2014on rare occasions even years\u2014as they try to work odd jobs and move onwards. \u201cWhen migrants arrive in Yemen, they\u2019re usually extremely tired and in need of emergency medical care,\u201d said Headon. \u201cMobile teams travel around where migrants arrive and provide this care. The teams are made up of doctors, nurses and other health workers as well as translators, because it\u2019s vitally important that the migrants and the doctors there can communicate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yasser Musab, a doctor with IOM\u2019s Migrant Response Point in Aden, said that migrants \u201csuffer in Ras al-Ara.\u201d He continued: \u201cThere are so many smugglers in Ras al-Ara\u2014you can\u2019t imagine what they do to the migrants, hitting them, abusing them, so we do what we can to help them.\u201d Women, he said, are the most vulnerable; the IOM teams try to provide protection support to those who need it.\"An<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An Ethiopian migrant lies on a gurney used by IOM mobile doctors to check people who have recently arrived.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Around 16 per cent of migrants recorded on this route in the last three months were women (11 per cent are children and the rest are men). \u201cWomen are more vulnerable to being trafficked and also experiencing abuse in general, including sexual abuse and exploitation,\u201d said Headon. She explained that, unlike men, women often were not able to pay the full cost of the journey upfront. \u201cThey are in debt by the time they get to their destination. And this situation feeds into trafficking, because there\u2019s this ongoing relationship between the trafficker and the victim, and there is exploitation there and an explicit expectation that they\u2019ll pay off their debts.\u201d She said that with COVID-19, more migrants have been stuck in Yemen, and women have been trapped in situations of indentured servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of funding shortfalls, the invaluable work of providing food, medical assistance and protection support falls to the same IOM response teams. \u201cWe distribute water, dates, biscuits,\u201d said Musab, \u201cbut the main job of the medical teams is to provide medical care.\u201d He said that some cases can be treated locally, but some injuries and illnesses require them to be transferred to hospitals in Aden. During the pandemic, medical workers have also been on the front lines of checking for symptoms of the virus among recently arrived migrants. (Contrary to some xenophobic propaganda distributed in Yemen, confirmed cases among migrants have been very low.)\"The<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The words \u201aGod Halp Me\u2018 tattooed on the arm of a young East African man at a shelter in Aden, on Yemen\u2019s south coast.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ahmad, a farmer in his forties from Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, was one of the migrants who came to Musab\u2019s team for a check-up. This is his second time travelling from East Africa to Saudi Arabia, where he lived twice before the police deported him back to Ethiopia. (Deportations and repatriations of East African migrants have occasionally occurred from Yemen, and more systematically from Saudi Arabia, although these depend upon the wax and wane of bilateral relations between host nations and the migrants\u2019 countries of origin.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why had he decided to make the journey again? \u201cIn Ethiopia there\u2019s no money,\u201d he said, repeating the common refrain. \u201cIn Saudi there\u2019s a lot of money and you can earn a lot of money,\u201d Ahmad continued, saying he has four children to provide for back in Ethiopia. \u201cI only want for my family to live in peace, to make enough money for my family.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On his first trip, in the early 2000s, Ahmad travelled from Ethiopia through Somalia to get a boat to Yemen and then walked 24 days to the southern Saudi city of Jazan. He was deported to Yemen after six months but was able to enter again, staying there for about 15 years and working on a farm before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In early 2020, Ahmad decided to make the trip to Saudi Arabia again, but this time his journey was curtailed around Ras al-Ara because of COVID-19 restrictions and local checkpoints. \u201cTo survive, I\u2019ve worked here as a fisherman, maybe one or two days a week,\u201d he said. \u201cNow I\u2019m trapped here. I\u2019ve been stuck here for eight months in this desert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IOM mobile teams perform health checks on recently arrived East African migrants and refugees. Most arrive in the early morning after leaving the north African coast the night before.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Some East African migrants and refugees have been trapped in Yemen for much longer. Since Somalia descended into civil war in 1991, refugees have lived in Aden\u2019s Basateen sector. Sometimes locals call it Somal<\/em>, the Arabic word for Somalia, because so many Somalis live there. People who make the journey from Somalia are automatically considered refugees when they arrive in Yemen. Among them there are those who insist they are better off than they could ever be in their own country despite the ongoing war in Yemen and its privations (of water, health care and safety). IOM and UNHCR run clinics in the area to provide emergency care to migrants and refugees respectively, but with funding for humanitarian assistance running low, not everyone can be provided for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saida, a 30-year-old mother of three from Mogadishu, recently visited a UNHCR-sponsored clinic in Basateen so that a nurse could check up on her children. She wore a jet-black hijab<\/em> and cradled her youngest, a seven-month-old named Mahad. She said the clinic is essential for the health of her young children. Two of them\u2014twins named Amir and Amira\u2014suffered from severe acute malnutrition, she explained, and the clinic provides essential support to her and nutrition for her children. \u201cI came here to provide a better life for my children; in Somalia we were very hungry and very poor,\u201d Saida explained. She was pregnant with Mahad when she took the boat from Somalia eight months ago, and she gave birth to him as a refugee in Yemen.\"Women<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women and children in the Al-Basateen neighbourhood. The area is home to the majority of Aden\u2019s refugees, many of whom are from Somalia.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Somalia, Saida was constantly afraid of violence. Aden, which has been relatively peaceful since she arrived, seems like a relatively safe place to her. \u201cThe war is much worse in Somalia,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel safer in Yemen. I\u2019m saving my life right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ordinary Yemenis, for their part, often feel a duty to help migrants and refugees, despite the privations of war\u2014Headon explained that people leave out tanks of water for the migrants traversing the deserts of south Yemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Saida says, she cannot find regular work and she relies on UNHCR\u2019s services to keep her children alive. \u201cThe community health volunteers have helped me a lot. They have helped me take care of my children and put me in touch with specialists, and they taught me how to continue with the treatments,\u201d Saida continued. \u201cThey also taught me how to identify signs of my children relapsing into sickness or having contracted other diseases. Now, thanks be to God, everything is going well with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doctors attend to patients at a UNHCR-supported free primary health-care facility in Aden\u2019s Al-Basateen neighbourhood.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, some migrants have settled too, carving out careers of sorts for themselves on the fishing dhows and on long sea journeys transporting people like themselves. On a beach dotted with anchored boats the afternoon after the two Mohameds were freed, a young Yemeni man in a sarong was distributing fistfuls of cash to migrants sitting on the ground. At first, the man claimed that the money was payment for work on the boats, but then he suggested that, in fact, the labourers had been working on a farm. It was unclear why they were being paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who sat around him in a circle were mainly African migrants, and they waited shouting and jostling before quietening down, as each man got up, explained to the young man what work he had done and received his money. \u201cI fished more than he did,\u201d one shouted. \u201cWhy are you giving him more money?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first to get up was Faisal, a 46-year-old Somali man with a pronounced swagger and cracked teeth, his head wrapped in a white turban. He paid around $200 to come to Yemen from Somalia\u2019s Puntland region in 2010, and he has lived in Ras al-Ara for the past seven years. He had worked as a soldier in Puntland, but then he feuded with his brother, lost his job and was forced to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Ras al-Ara, Faisal works odd jobs to get by. On good days he makes just under $20. \u201cSometimes I work as a fisherman and sometimes I travel to Somalia on a boat to get other Somalis and bring them here.\u201d When he wants to find work, he\u2019ll come to the beach in the evening, wait with other casual labourers, and then fishing captains or smugglers will come and hire him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Headon pointed out that the boats are often packed full to increase smuggling profits and that the smugglers often force people from the boats. Usually, Faisal said, there are about 120 people in each 15-metre dhow. \u201cThey\u2019re overcrowded, and they often sink and many people drown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal said that the Yemenis had been very accommodating to him. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like a homeland, Yemen now,\u201d he said. Still, he wants most of all to return home once he has saved some money. (IOM and UNHCR run a return programme for Somali refugees, but it has been on hold since the pandemic began.) \u201cFrankly, I don\u2019t like it here,\u201d he said. \u201cMy dream is to return to my country. If I had money, I\u2019d go back to my country directly.\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"A Great Unseen Humanitarian Crisis","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"a-great-unseen-humanitarian-crisis","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5383","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5368,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:27:05","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday 29 May, Chelsea London won the Champions League at the Porto Stadium, beating Manchester City 1-0. It sounds like sports news, but it isn't. Like the attempt by several of Europe's biggest clubs to create a Super League that no longer participates in national leagues but is an exclusive association of the richest teams in the world[1]<\/sup><\/a>, there is much more at stake than a ball and 22 boys. in shorts chasing after him. It is a very important political, social and economic issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On May 29, the UAE's ruling family, that of Sheikh Al-Nahyan[2]<\/sup><\/a>, was defeated by that of Russian oil tanker Roman Abramovich[3]<\/sup><\/a>, who won the trophy for the world's most important football club for the second time in ten years. To achieve this, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the younger brother of Abu Dhabi leader Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, paid $ 4 billion to buy the club's shares and is now spending around $ 600 million, that's $ 80 million more than Chelsea every year to bring Manchester City to the forefront of Europe. [4]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, behind the sheikh is his whole family, because the manager of Manchester City is Khaldoon Al Mubarak, managing director and CEO of the Mubadala group, whose boss and main shareholder is Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and Mansour is the vice- President[5]<\/sup><\/a>. The Mubadala Group, a financial holding company that bills more than $ 240 billion a year[6]<\/sup><\/a>, is the result of the concentration of all financial, construction, industrial and military activities in the United Arab Emirates[7]<\/sup><\/a> - and is the project with which Mohammed Bin is preparing. Zayed Al-Nahyan his country for a world where oil is no longer as central as it is today. To understand the size, the country's total national gross domestic product is $ 420 billion, less than double the sales of a single company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manchester City shares, held by the Sheikh family, are held by a holding company, City Football Group Ltd., a Manchester-based company that also owns the New York City FC teams, Melbourne City, Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona (Spain), Sichuan Jiunju (China), Mumbay City (India), Lommel SK (Belgium) and Estac Troyes (France)[8]<\/sup><\/a>. There is no official data on the cost of this formidable roster of professional teams - to which must be added the $ 693 million paid to sponsor the Real Madrid and Arsenal London kits over a five-year period[9]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fierce opposition between the Emirates and Qatar, the focus in Doha, in addition to the very expensive administration of Paris Saint-Germain[10]<\/sup><\/a>, is more on the organization of world-class events such as the FIFA Cup and the Formula 1 Grand Prix. From a Western perspective, both strategies are foolish and unnecessary, and in addition, they are carried out through the enslavement of thousands of immigrants and the elimination of substances that could be used in jobs that increase the standard of living of many Muslim populations, submerged by war, misery, from hostage-taking to diplomatic conflicts with a fictitious religious background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why all this money? To gain the affection, adhesion and sympathy of city dwellers, whose teams can achieve better sports results with UAE money? Modern sociology has argued for a quarter of a century that there is a process of irreversible change underway that will very soon erase any narrow perception of team membership - as is the case in American professional sport, of which clubs change seats relatively frequently \u2013 as soon as another municipal administration offers better infrastructure and better tax treatment. [11]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The proclamation of the title of UAE champion 2017-2018, won by FC Al Ain, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan<\/sub><\/strong>[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite the opposite of what most Europeans perceive, which in turn is inextricably linked to belonging to a city or even a neighborhood. Above all, it is the supporters who are willing to spend money on tickets and merchandising, as evidenced by the real revolt of supporters of the clubs who wanted to participate in the Super League and who accused the management of treason, so this project in a few hours failed[13]<\/sup><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something that golf leaders cannot understand, given that in these two countries the proletariat, the main reservoir of European supporters, has been replaced by immigrants (65.2% of the population of Qatar, 88.2% of the population of the United Arab Emirates), who are also treated under conditions comparable to slavery and therefore have little interest in local football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while it is true that in Europe the expansion of TV coverage has brought many people out of the stadium (not everywhere, given the growing number of viewers in Germany and the United Kingdom), that does not mean that the public has chosen to give up to follow small local clubs to take advantage of only 12 clubs in the world as hoped by the creators of the Super League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned earlier, Qatar and the Emirates are pursuing different strategies. Paris St. Germain is controlled by the QIA Qatar Investment Authority, which, through political insight gained since working with the team, has received the government backing it needs to invest in Barclays, Sainsbury's, Harrods, Volkswagen, Walt Disney, Heathrow Airport in London, Siemens, Shell and a thousand other things to seize including some of the best hotels in Italy and especially Sardinia. Football is therefore a means of building trade relations, even befor[14]<\/sup><\/a>e diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Emirates, this concept seems completely upside down. The national football league consists of 14 teams, of which at least three (the three clubs with the greatest tradition) belong to the family of Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan[15]<\/sup><\/a>. In no other country in the world do football teams personally belong to the strongman of the national regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the Emirates have four times the population of Qatar, the average Qatari League attendance is 11,000 fans and the Emirates less than half. This means that the UAE Championship is only essential for the image that the Al-Nahyan family is trying to establish in the world. Of course, on closer inspection there are trade deals as well[16]<\/sup><\/a>, but they don't seem that important, in part because the Mubadala Group prefers to build industry partnerships rather than just financial investment deals.[17]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what ? If the Champions League final isn't Manchester City v Paris St. Germain every year ... if those two teams don't always manage to win the domestic championship ... if fans continue to see both teams as English and French ... if all this is true, what is it? Does it make sense to throw so many billions every year into this bottomless abyss of European professional football?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/sheikh-mansour-richest-man-football-2052350.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190630210353\/https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sport\/football\/2406994\/Bates-sells-off-Chelsea-to-a-Russian-billionaire.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/investment-committee\/khaldoon-al-mubarak<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/board-of-directors<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/corporate-structure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cityfootballgroup.com\/our-clubs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/mikeozanian\/2021\/04\/12\/the-worlds-most-valuable-soccer-teams-barcelona-on-top-at-48-billion\/?sh=421d05616ac5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> https:\/\/www.sportspromedia.com\/news\/neymar-psg-qatar-national-bank-endorsement-deal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.docsity.com\/it\/sociologia-del-calcio\/4160762\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/qds\/1132<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/strong><\/a> https:\/\/www.the-afc.com\/competitions\/afc-champions-league\/latest\/news\/al-ain-lift-uae-pro-league-title-in-style<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/culture\/european-soccer-super-league\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.tuttocagliari.net\/altre-notizie\/psg-e-non-solo-la-famiglia-al-thani-patrimonio-da-627-miliardi-di-dollari-19421<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UAE_Pro_League<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/investmentpolicy.unctad.org\/international-investment-agreements\/treaty-files\/425\/download<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.mubadala.com\/en\/who-we-are\/partnerships<\/a><\/p>\n","post_title":"As the Champions League was lost in Abu Dhabi","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"as-the-champions-league-was-lost-in-abu-dhabi","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5368","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5355,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:14:19","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 25 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/exclusive-un-tribunal-lebanon-runs-out-funds-beiruts-crisis-spills-over-2021-05-25\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A U.N. tribunal set up to prosecute those behind the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has run out of funding amid Lebanon\u2019s economic and political crisis, threatening plans for future trials, people involved in the process said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closing the tribunal would dash the hopes of families of victims in the Hariri murder and other attacks, but also those demanding that a U.N. tribunal bring to justice those responsible for the Beirut port blast last August that killed 200 and injured 6,500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year the U.N. Special Tribunal for Lebanon, located outside of The Hague, convicted former Hezbollah member Salim Jamil Ayyash for the bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to five life terms in prison, while three alleged accomplices were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. read more <\/a>. Both sides have appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The court had been scheduled to start a second trial on June 16 against Ayyash, who is accused of another assassination and attacks against Lebanese politicians in 2004 and 2005 in the run-up to the Hariri bombing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said he was aware of the court\u2019s financial problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Secretary-General continues to urge member states and the international community for voluntary contributions in order to secure the funds required to support the independent judicial proceedings that remain before the tribunal,\u201c U.N. Deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding shortfall comes as Lebanon faces its worst turmoil since Hariri\u2019s assassination. The country is deeply polarized between supporters of Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah and its allies and supporters of Hariri\u2019s son, prime minister designate Saad al-Hariri, who declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FINANCES \u201eVERY CONCERNING\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eIf you abort the tribunal, if you abort this case, you are giving a free gift to the perpetrators and to those who do not want justice to take place,\u201c Nidal Jurdi, a lawyer for the victims in the second case, told Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scrapping a new trial would not only harm victims who waited 17 years for the case to come to court, but would undermine accountability for crimes in Lebanon in general, Jurdi said, adding that a letter had been sent to the U.N. expressing concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be \u201ea disappointment for the victims of the connected cases and the victims of Lebanon\u201c, he said, appealing for international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eLebanon needs full accountability,\u201c he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Created by a 2007 U.N. Security Council resolution and opened in 2009, the tribunal\u2019s budget last year was 55 million euros ($67 million) with Lebanon footing 49% of the bill and foreign donors and the U.N. members making up the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eThe Special Tribunal for Lebanon is in a very concerning financial position,\u201c court spokeswoman Wajed Ramadan told Reuters. \u201eNo decision has yet been taken on judicial proceedings and there are intense fundraising efforts going on to find a solution,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. extended the mandate of the tribunal from March 1, 2021, for two years or sooner if the remaining cases were completed or funding ran out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres warned in February that due to the financial crisis in Lebanon, the government\u2019s contribution was uncertain and warned the court may not be able to continue its work after the first quarter of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2021 budget had been trimmed by nearly 40 percent, forcing job cuts at the court, but the Lebanese government has still been unable to pay its share, according to U.N. documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guterres requested an appropriation of about $25 million from the U.N. General Assembly for 2021. The General Assembly approved $15.5 million in March.<\/p>\n","post_title":"EXCLUSIVE U.N. tribunal for Lebanon runs out of funds as Beirut\u2019s crisis spills over","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"exclusive-u-n-tribunal-for-lebanon-runs-out-of-funds-as-beiruts-crisis-spills-over","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5355","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5343,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-30 21:04:21","post_content":"\n

originally published:<\/em> 30 May 2021<\/strong> | origin:<\/em> https:\/\/www.omanobserver.om\/article\/1101592\/business\/unprecedented-19-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electricity consumption dipped a modest, but unprecedented, 1.9 percent to 33,156 gigawatt-hours (GWh) in 2020, reversing for the first time since the sector was restructured in 2005 a year-on-year trend in power demand growth averaging around 4-6 percent annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The slump, as with most other aspects of national economic and social life over the past year, was attributed to widespread disruption unleashed by the economic downturn compounded by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to figures released by Nama Group, the holding company of government-owned power assets and related service providers, subsidy disbursed by the government to the sector also declined slightly to RO 614.98 million in 2020, down from RO 624.69 million a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subsidy typically accounts for roughly half of the economic cost of power generation, distribution and supply to Oman\u2019s estimated 1.3 million customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than one percent of this total \u2014 comprising large government, industrial and commercial customers with a consumption of over 150 megawatt-hours per annum \u2014 pay subsidy-free cost-reflective tariffs. Besides electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply costs, the overall economic cost of supplying power also includes depreciation cost, operation and maintenance costs, interest on borrowings, general and administrative expenses, and tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significantly, the subsidy per unit of electricity supplied by Nama Group subsidiaries last year also grew moderately to RO 18.550 per unit last year, up from RO 18.480 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, starting from 2021, the overall subsidy component is expected to gradually decline in line with a phased strategy by the government to eliminate subsidy altogether over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economically vulnerable residential customers however will be eligible for some assistance in lieu when the subsidy is fully withdrawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another highlight of 2020, Nama Group reported a 2.82 percent improvement in the utilization of natural gas towards electricity generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The improved efficiency in fuel utilization was attributed to the operationalization of two newly developed Independent Power Projects Sohar-3 and Ibri-1 during the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, electricity losses recorded a slight spike to 9.80 percent in 2020, up from 9.67 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nama Group, comprising as many as 12 subsidiaries, posted a 4.77 percent increase in Group revenue, which climbed to RO 1.31 billion in 2020. Profit After Tax rose 12.29 per cent to RO 67.82 million in 2020. The Group\u2019s total assets reached RO 6.75 billion at the end of last year.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Unprecedented 1.9% decline in Oman\u2019s power demand last year","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"unprecedented-1-9-decline-in-omans-power-demand-last-year","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_modified_gmt":"2025-02-02 08:35:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dctransparency.com\/?p=5343","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":5318,"post_author":"7","post_date":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-05-23 22:10:10","post_content":"\n

\u00a9 IBI World Limited<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who among us is not registered in at least one social network? The choice is vast: LinkedIn (in the workplace), Instagram (for beautiful images), Twitter (for \"flying\" thoughts and aphorisms), TikTok (loved by the younger generations, full of irony and music videos), and then again WhatsApp and Telegram (to converse) and the most famous of all - Facebook, to maintain relations with friends. They are flexible, very fast tools, to which we entrust our most intimate thoughts, our tastes, our fears and our passions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What would happen if, suddenly, there was a system to record everything you do, say and are told, to manipulate your opinion, to artificially shift your attention away from important things and even to get you to vote for the candidate wanted by \"their\"? Who are they? Who can ever have a reason to make you vote Donald Trump, or get the UK out of the European Union? Today, these questions are answered: a computer marketing company called Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It did so by collecting all the data from social networks (especially Facebook), analyzing them, studying our individual preferences in terms of food, books, travel and, above all, opinions. He did it for money, no matter who paid. It did so by suggesting content to the customer - content that met the tastes of the majority of users who, in this way, received advertising stimuli without realizing it, most of the time in the form of electronic avatars which, once accepted as \"friends\", covered the wall of manipulative messages, fake news, invitations to anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing dangerous, you say? For Christopher Wylie, one of the nerds who worked on the algorithms and programs used by Cambridge Analytica, the results of the American elections were enough to convince him otherwise and be overwhelmed by the horror of all the things that can be achieved in this way. It was he, one of the tricks of Donald Trump's victorious electoral campaign, who told the British and American magistrates this story from the inside: the secret ties, the dark mechanisms, the battle of interests and capital[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary reacted immediately: Cambridge Analytica's contracts were declared illegal, the group's companies filed for bankruptcy but, as in the best action films, this was not the end: the technology, the staff, the data, the network commercial and political, as well as the company's capital, have been transferred to a new entity, Emerdata Plc, which is even more mysterious and uncontrollable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of unscrupulous entrepreneurs<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah (left), Alexander Nix (right), the founders of Cambridge Analytica<\/sub><\/strong>[2]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a very recent story: on July 20, 2005, in London, the American entrepreneur Robert Mercer, together with the very young advertising consultant Alexander Nix (he was 30 years old), founded an advertising and electoral consultancy company, the SCL Group (Strategic Communication Laboratories ), which wants to help companies prepare advertising campaigns for their products and politicians to prepare their individual electoral campaigns[3]<\/a>. The initial group is a mixture of advertising experts (such as Roger Michael Gabb, Nigel and Alexander Oakes), of crypto data analysts (such as John Bottomley[4]<\/a>), with surprising and unscrupulous ideas, which Mercer approaches personalities of politics and finance with money to make any dream come true[5]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCL technicians are personally supported by a historical leader of the English right, Colonel Sir Geoffrey Edwin Pattie[6]<\/a>, Margaret Thatcher's minister[7]<\/a>, who has always supported the idea that the army must have sophisticated technological systems to defend itself on the internet[8]<\/a>) - and by other right-wing extremists like Julian Wheatland[9]<\/a>. But the most famous initial financier of SCL is the exiled Iranian businessman Vincent Tchenguiz, shareholder of SCL through his Consensus Business Group[10]<\/a>: already involved in a major financial scandal, from which he will later be acquitted[11]<\/a>, Tchenguiz is still engaged in espionage[12]<\/a> and invests in Israeli military technology[13]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company initially had a single client, brokered by Sir Pattie, but in the short space of a few months, SCL obtains important new contracts with several defense ministries in NATO countries[14]<\/a>. At the same time, the money used in the various projects also grows, and for this the contributions of the Mercer family and Steve Bannon were fundamental, and with the increase in the number of customers, the need to have a boutique for the best customers also arises: Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is a former IBM technician, who became a billionaire thanks to a company that studies artificial intelligence, Renaissance Technologies Llc[15]<\/a>, and further enriched himself by speculating on the stock market, managing hedge funds and accompanying Donald Trump's commercial career[16]<\/a>. Mercer will also ask Trump to invest in Cambridge Analytica[17]<\/a>, after the two billionaires became friends and discovered that they have common ideas that unite them to the extreme right-wing supremacist and undemocratic[18]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercer is the founder of the far-right blog \"Breitbart News,\"[19]<\/a> which he later succumbed to his daughters \"for personal reasons,\" as they both share his extremist views. His daughter Rebekah[20]<\/a> is the owner of the \"Center Firearms Co\" gun shop, accused of financing the assault on Capitol Hill in 2019[21]<\/a>. The family has been donating large sums to the Republican Party for years[22]<\/a>, financing Steve Bannon's propaganda activities[23]<\/a> and Donald Trump's commercial activities[24]<\/a>, for which Rebekah recently formed her own lobbying group, Making America Great, headed by Emily Cornell, ex Cambridge Analytica executive[25]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Bannon<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mercer is a shy man, and the only visible signs of his existence are the billionaire yachts he buys, all called Sea Owl[26]<\/a>; plus a set of $ 2.9 million model trains, plus billions more paid to climate-denying NGOs (Heartland Institute, CO2 Coalition and Cato Institute[27]<\/a>) and finally his favorite toy, Breitbart News[28]<\/a>, an online newspaper that publishes campaigns based on lies, which splashes mud on the enemies of the American far right, which seeks to defeat, in a Darwinistic-post-industrial key, those that Mercer and his dolphin, Steve Bannon consider the two greatest woes of our time: liberalism and democracy[29]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Bannon led Breitbart from its founding to 2018, when an argument with Trump made him decide to leave[30]<\/a> - only briefly, because Bannon, who has since joined Cambridge Analytica's management[31]<\/a> and shareholder base, is a man Trump does not. he can renounce: and in fact, in 2017, he appoints him as a member of the Security Council of the United States, where he will be the inspirer of the Muslim Travel Ban and of the \"wall\" on the border with Mexico[32]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the election, Bannon was considered \"Trump's black mind\"[33]<\/a>, especially after he was able to persuade the new president to unilaterally withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal[34]<\/a> to please conservative industrialists. In November 2018, Bannon was investigated by the Senate for his relations with George Papadopoulos (later sentenced to 14 days in prison) and William Page, two former advisers in Trump's presidential campaign accused of being in contact with Russian secret agents (Russiagate[35]<\/a>) and with managers of the Russian oil group LukOil[36]<\/a>; a few days later the investigation was also extended to his activities in Cambridge Analytica[37]<\/a>, convincing Bannon, who feared arrest, to emigrate to Europe[38]<\/a> and create the \"The Movement\" project to bring together the populist leaders of the Old Continent[39]<\/a>, promote nationalism economic and right-wing populism in Europe - a movement that Matteo Salvini has joined since 2018[40]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Children of a lesser nerd<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aleksandr Kogan (left) and Christopher Wylie (right)<\/sub><\/strong>[41]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, Mercer and Bannon are great puppeteers, people used to dealing with the powerful and running global campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is mainly made up of nerds who, following their creativity, discover computerized systems of manipulation of consent. Cambridge Analytica, founded in 2013 as a subsidiary of the SCL Group of Mercer, Tchenguiz and Bannon, has set itself, from the outset, the aim of \"changing public behavior\"[42]<\/a>. She specializes in \"election management strategies\" and \"messaging and information operations\", already perfected by obscure nerds, in obscure small IT companies with military contracts, over 25 years of operations in places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In military circles this is known as \"psyops\" - psychological operations[43]<\/a>, which serve to reduce the enemy's will to fight. Cambridge Analytica initially uses that software for micromarketing programs. The company collects data from various sources including social media platforms like Facebook[44]<\/a> and, instead of selling items, it imagines selling a political project with the systems of the psyops[45]<\/a>. And he sells it to every single person, gathering all his accessible data to develop a highly detailed psychological and emotional profile. The set of various profiles is then used to develop political strategies[46]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This program is developed by Michal Kosinski, a Cambridge nerd expert in computer and psychonometry, who wanted to use the program to persuade the supporters of abstention to go and vote - so that Kosinski, when he understands the Mercer and Bannon project, gives up everything, but it has now lost possession of its software[47]<\/a>. In his place Mercer calls another nerd, Aleksandr Kogan, who has his own small software company called GSR Global Science Research: he discovers a new Facebook application, called \"This is Your Digital Life\"[48]<\/a> which has a special permission to collect information. not only from the person using the app, but also from his network, collecting the info on each of the contacts[49]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan is Moldovan, his childhood was spent in Moscow, for him the West is the Promised Land[50]<\/a>. The GSR founded it together with a friend, Joseph Andrew Chancellor[51]<\/a>, who like Kogan is extremely ambitious and doesn't give a damn about Hamletic doubts. When GSR gets the big contract with SCL, Joseph leaves and goes to work for Facebook\u2026[52]<\/a> . Joseph's place is taken by Christopher Wylie, who calls himself a \"gay vegan Canadian\"[53]<\/a> and, after spending terrible years as a victim of bullying, drops out of school, becomes a successful self-taught and graduates from the London School of Economics[54]<\/a>. He joined Cambridge Analytica in 2013, after moving to Alexander Nix's[55]<\/a> SCL Elections Ltd[56]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But seeing Bannon at work upsets him, so he leaves and goes to tell the police everything[57]<\/a>. And Wilye begins by telling about Alexander Nix, a boy with a good college resume, selfish and ambitious[58]<\/a>. Nix is \u200b\u200bthe charming man who gives client presentations, gives university lectures, smiles on TV - and who, surprisingly, will stay out of the Cambridge Analytica management criminal investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great presidential race of 2016<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, in the company's office in New York City in October 2016<\/sub><\/strong>[59]<\/strong><\/sub><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first to notice that something is wrong with the personal data of Facebook users is The Guardian reporter Harry Davies in December 2015: he says that Cambridge Analytica works for US Senator Ted Cruz[60]<\/a> and uses data collected from millions of accounts Facebook without any consent from their owners - which is why Facebook ordered Kogan to stop and blocked him on all sites[61]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kogan closes GSR and goes to San Francisco, where he founds Philometrics and continues to work for Cambridge Analytica[62]<\/a>, initially analyzing forecasts on the trend of cryptocurrencies[63]<\/a>. But when, in March 2018, Special Attorney Robert Mueller investigates Russia's alleged interference in US elections and suspicion that illegal counter-propaganda has been organized against the Clinton family, Kogan's name is among the first to appear on documents seized in Cambridge. Analytica[64]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2016, as manager Molly Schweickert testifies[65]<\/a>, the Trump committee entrusts Cambridge Analytica with the management of the campaign: Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, hires a computer scientist, Brad Parscale, who puts the Trumps in contact with Cambridge Analytica[66]<\/a>. Steve Bannon, at the time head of Breitbart News, Trump's election campaign manager and former vice president of Cambridge Analytica, decided to stake everything on this project[67]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later it will be discovered that Nix had kept Wylie's software and that much of Cambridge Analytica's work was done using the data he had gleaned from Facebook[68]<\/a>. The software reads the data, organizes it, responds to each one, publishes fake news with millions of often fictitious avatars[69]<\/a>. But now the judiciary is unstoppable: in March 2018, Cambridge Analytica is the subject of criminal investigations on both sides of the Atlantic[70]<\/a>. The deeper the judiciary goes into the analysis of internal documents, the more it discovers: in the course of just four years, the staff of the nerds put together by Mercer has manipulated elections in at least 200 cases in a couple of dozen countries[71]<\/a>. It may seem strange to you, but no government of those countries has wanted to deepen the subject - Italy, France, Spain and Germany included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ties with Russia and the United Arab Emirates<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In December 2016, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan visits Trump Tower and meets Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn and Steve Bannon - this is a serious violation of diplomatic protocol, as Abu Dhabi's number two forgets to contact the federal administration, led by Barack Obama, just as it forgets to have met, a few minutes earlier, in the same rooms, the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak[72]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To federal magistrates, Trump's men will tell that the trading of shares of the oil giant Rosneft was being negotiated, and that Mohammed Bin Zayed, in this regard, had previously organized a meeting in the Seychelles which was also attended by the oligarch Kirill Dmitriev[73]<\/a>, the founder Blackwater mercenary firm Erik Prince[74]<\/a>, and Trump consultant George Nader[75]<\/a>. In reality, there is discussion about the price that Moscow asks Trump for having a less cooperative attitude with Iran[76]<\/a>. It is not known what the Russians responded, but it is since that time that the Russian regime has started using Cambridge Analytica to try to influence the US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump - a project coordinated by Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak[77]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fall of 2017[78]<\/a>, the UAE Media National Council signs a contract with SCL Social (another SCL group company) for $ 330,000[79]<\/a> to conduct a global media campaign against Qatar[80]<\/a>. As, a few months later, the companies of the SCL group are forced into bankruptcy, this contract will be transferred to a new company, based in Abu Dhabi, named Emerdata Plc, whose shareholders and managers are exactly the same as those of Cambridge Analytica[81]<\/a>, and which maintains the main and most delicate political and diplomatic ties[82]<\/a>. As for the activities that concern all the other customers and countries connected to the individual companies of the SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica, these were moved to Romania, to the offices of SC Strategic Communications Laboratories Srl Baia Mare[83]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old contracts seem to be concentrated within this new secret industrial and commercial group, on the other hand there are important managers of Cambridge Analytica who found new companies and acquire new customers. One among all: Ahmad Ahraf Al Khatib, a computer technician originally from the United Arab Emirates but currently a citizen of the Seychelles Islands[84]<\/a>. Al Khatib worked for the Mubadala military group, owned by Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, and for the state-owned investment fund ADIA Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (also headed by Al-Nahyan) and from there he moved to the helm of Emerdata[85]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the summer of 2018 he founded Auspex International Ltd. Chalvington (a small town a few kilometers from Eastbourne and Brighton)[86]<\/a>, which has new and almost all unknown clients, but the same usual Cambridge Analytica software available. 20% of this company belongs to Vision Esop Ltd. Chalvington (currently in liquidation[87]<\/a>, owned by Al Khatib and another ex of SCL, Mike Popesku[88]<\/a>), 80% belongs to Vision Holdco Ltd.[89]<\/a>, a company possibly registered in Seychelles, whose shareholders are unknown[90]<\/a>. In addition to this, Al Khatib has started a commercial activity in Brazil, linked to an Islamic religious association[91]<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Al Khatib, a dozen other former Cambridge Analytica analysts are currently in full swing, either in the ranks of Emerdata or as owners of very small one-man businesses however connected to Emerdata. It is not known what they do, but they certainly use the same software, or possibly a further development of the technology that, a few years ago, was used by Cambridge Analytica. This means that the criminal investigations against the activities of Mercer and Bannon's group have been, for Cambridge Analytica, like a huge global advertising campaign and that, everywhere on the planet, there are regimes and individual political groups that, just as we write, are using illegally social networks and any other data collection system to manipulate the electorate, that is you, that is us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpbeOCKZFfQ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/a> 2005.07.13 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/a> https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jbottomley\/?originalSubdomain=fr<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/a> 2008.07.21 SCL Group Ltd. Tunbridge Wells<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[6]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060405015351\/http:\/\/www.regiments.org\/regiments\/uk\/inf\/095RGJ.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[7]<\/a> https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120207163707\/http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/PDFs\/1403903735.Pdf<\/a>, pages 11-12 ; https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080604112403\/http:\/\/www.psr.keele.ac.uk\/table\/york\/Defence.html#Defence74<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[8]<\/a> https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=MZjobjexWkcC&pg=PA25&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ; https:\/\/books.google.it\/books?id=reE9YRnv2i0C&pg=PA29&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[9]<\/a> https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/theresa-may-dodges-question-on-tory-links-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3?IR=T<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk\/news\/national\/16103068.cambridge-analytica-founders-behind-new-london-based-data-processing-company\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[10]<\/a> 2015.10.01 Consensus Business Group Ltd. London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[11]<\/a> https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-12688072<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[12]<\/a> https:\/\/en.globes.co.il\/en\/article-investigating-the-investigators-black-cube-1000914455<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2013\/apr\/22\/vincent-tchenguiz-settles-black-cube-dispute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[13]<\/a> 2011.01.24 Vincent Aziz Tchenguiz on eVigilo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[14]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[15]<\/a> https:\/\/www.rentec.com\/Home.action?index=true<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000022219&cycle=A<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[16]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[17]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[18]<\/a> https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[19]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[20]<\/a> Main financier of Parler - a social media that was born in 2018 to \"support free speech\" and that already has the profiles of Eric, son of Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and others. The social network was blocked by Apple, Google and Android for numerous violations of the regulations and incitement to violence, see: https:\/\/forbes.it\/2021\/01\/11\/rebekah-mercer-ereditiera-dietro-parler-il-social-ultra-conservatore-bandito-dal-web\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[21]<\/a> https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/01\/27\/rebekah-mercer-book-capitol-riot\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[22]<\/a> https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/politico50\/rebekah-mercer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2017\/nov\/02\/billionaire-trump-donor-robert-mercer-breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[24]<\/a> https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/24\/mercer-family-dramatically-scaled-back-giving-to-conservative-causes-heading-into-2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[25]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[26]<\/a> https:\/\/yachtharbour.com\/news\/sea-owl--robert-mercer-s-iconic-green-hulled-yacht-3008<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.superyachtfan.com\/yacht\/sea-owl\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[27]<\/a> https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1061727147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[28]<\/a> https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[29]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[30]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[31]<\/a> https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/esteri\/2018\/03\/21\/news\/bannon_l_ex_stratega_di_trump_la_mente_di_cambridge_analytica-191810903\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[32]<\/a>  https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/news\/approfondimenti\/2019\/04\/17\/steve-bannon-trump-salvini-sovranisti-elezioni-europee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[33]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/politica\/salvini_bannon_cambridge_analytica_facebook-3676464\/news\/2018-03-24\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[34]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jan\/09\/steve-bannon-leaves-breitbart-after-expressing-regret-over-trump-remarks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[35]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wallstreetitalia.com\/trend\/russiagate\/<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/argomenti\/russiagate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[36]<\/a> https:\/\/www.agi.it\/estero\/cambridge_analytica_russia_putin_trump-3644440\/news\/2018-03-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[37]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[38]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[39]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilfattoquotidiano.it\/2018\/11\/01\/usa-steve-bannon-indagato-dal-senato-lex-stratega-di-trump-nel-mirino-per-russiagate-e-il-caso-cambridge-analytica\/4735921\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[40]<\/a> https:\/\/www.open.online\/2020\/08\/20\/steve-bannon-amici-italiani-salvini-meloni\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[41]<\/a> https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[42]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[43]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[44]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[45]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[46]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[47]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[48]<\/a> https:\/\/www.gazeta.ru\/tech\/2019\/03\/18\/12249439\/kogan_sues.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[49]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[50]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[51]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[52]<\/a> https:\/\/thebell.io\/uchenyj-na-temnoj-storone-kak-urozhenets-moldavii-okazalsya-v-tsentre-skandala-s-facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[53]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[54]<\/a> https:\/\/www.illibraio.it\/autori\/christopher-wylie\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[55]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[57]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/768216311\/whistleblower-explains-how-cambridge-analytica-helped-fuel-u-s-insurgency?t=1621004563814<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[60]<\/a> https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/10\/us\/politics\/mercer-family-cambridge-analytica.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[61]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/dec\/11\/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[62]<\/a> https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/philometrics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[64]<\/a> https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/mueller-sought-emails-of-trump-campaign-data-firm-1513296899?mod=e2tw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[65]<\/a> https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/26\/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-brits-behind-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[66]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[67]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2018\/03\/19\/facebook-cambridge-analytica\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[68]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[69]<\/a> Video interview con Christopher Wylie: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/18\/what-is-cambridge-analytica-firm-at-centre-of-facebook-data-breach<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[70]<\/a> Cambridge Analytica has handed over some of the data collected in the UK to the Leave faction during Brexit, in particular to committees close to Nigel Farage (his lawyer, moreover, lived in the same building as Bannon), see: https:\/\/www.pandorarivista.it\/articoli\/steve-bannon-e-robert-mercer\/#_ftn14<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/mar\/15\/cambridge-analytica-illegal-foreign-donors-leave-eu-arron-banks<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/feb\/26\/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage<\/a> ; https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2018\/mar\/17\/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[71]<\/a> Christopher Wylie, \u201cMindf*ck: inside Cambridge Analytica's plot to break the world<\/em>\u201c, Profile Books, London 2019; Andreas Jungherr, \u201cRetooling politics: How digital media are shaping democracy<\/em>\u201d, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2020; Nazzareno Tirino, \u201cCambridge Analytica. <\/em>Il potere segreto, la gestione del consenso e la fine della propaganda<\/em>\u201d, Edizioni Libellula, Lecce 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[72]<\/a> https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[74]<\/a> Prince is best known as the founder of Blackwater, a security company that has become a symbol of US abuse in Iraq after a series of incidents, including one in 2007 in which company guards were accused - and subsequently criminally convicted - of killing civilians in a crowded Iraqi square. Prince sold the company, which was later renamed, but went on to build a private paramilitary empire with contracts across the Middle East and Asia. He is now the head of a Hong Kong-based company known as the Frontier Services Group, see: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/blackwater-founder-held-secret-seychelles-meeting-to-establish-trump-putin-back-channel\/2017\/04\/03\/95908a08-1648-11e7-ada0-1489b735b3a3_story.html?utm_term=.d64b6acf36b6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[78]<\/a> https:\/\/spitfirelist.com\/news\/the-cambridge-analytica-microcosm-in-our-panoptic-macrocosm\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[85]<\/a> https:\/\/wsiegelman.medium.com\/ahmad-al-khatib-who-launched-auspex-international-and-was-at-emerdata-with-erik-princes-business-f0e93e07c240<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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