The Republican parties in various other potential swing states, including Michigan and Nevada, have chosen to field Big Lie endorsers as their candidates for some or all of the same offices (see chart 2).

Any investigative committees they come to control will abruptly lose interest in Mar-a-Lago’s safes and turn their attention to President Joe Biden’s administration and family.

they will act as fierce Trump loyalists

The party’s base is still devoted to Mr Trump (65% net approval in polls) and to his Big Lie about the 2020 election (70% tell pollsters they believe it was stolen from him), and he can focus their ire on anyone whose head rises above the parapet. His power in the party is not absolute. But it is unquestionable.

“we will live in a world determined by others, with stifling constraints on our ability to shape our future”.

The mantra these days in Brussels is to provide “a Europe that protects”, whether from the vagaries of globalisation, a changing climate or foreign tyrants.

That model largely endures to this day. This is a disappointment to purists of European integration, for whom the project should aim to mitigate the power of selfish national governments, not enhance it.

during the euro crisis Brussels became a venue for national leaders to broker late-night deals rather than the home of institutions which themselves made decisions.

No national watchdog in Europe could boss around an Amazon or Google. The eu’s regulation of such tech giants, in contrast, has given the concerns of Europeans, whether on privacy or rapacious business models, real heft.

national leaders kick things up to the European level because they realise there is no way any single government can tackle them alone.

A decade ago the mantra in Brussels was “more Europe”: every problem had a solution that required power to be handed to the eu

the collective satisfaction of having come through a decennium horribilis in one piece (minus Britain)

Brussels is brimming with confidence, even as Europe’s prospects look more tenuous. What happened?

formula is “right on the cusp of a pharmaceutical”, because it is many babies’ sole source of nutrition. Getting exactly the recommended levels of vitamins—not 90%, not 110%—is crucial.

every foodstuff can be seen as a combination of fat, protein and carbohydrate.

The nascent nbs worked with iron founders to define the precise alloys that railway-builders should use.

They need physical embodiments of the standards they define.

Often they began as repositories for lumps of metal of precisely a kilogram’s mass or a metre’s length, though these fundamental units are now defined in terms of natural phenomena rather than iridium-platinum artefacts.

Standard methods and units are the bedrock of scientific endeavours from atom-smashing to astronomy.

He was saying that nato forces and the Ukrainian government had trained him to “eliminate” peace-loving citizens.

Schools are preparing to start teaching the Russian curriculum

Ukrainian mobile numbers no longer work.

Ukrainians can open accounts at one of two new Russian banks, but only if they get a Russian passport.

such as whether the party responded forcefully enough to the recent visit to Taiwan by Nancy Pelosi

their support for Bo Xilai, a red-song-loving rival to China’s then leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping.

The neo-Maoists know well that the government watches them warily.

Among officials, the flare-up of neo-Maoist discontent will not be welcome.

Neo-Maoist websites, as well as others run by nationalists of a less ideological hue, often serve a useful purpose for the party.

It is tearing at America’s governing institutions.

the black hole at the centre of its politics.

what was it about Mr Trump that drew people to him like this? “I don’t think about it…” he called back over his shoulder, with a grin. “Whatever it is, it is.”

not giving direct orders that might implicate him but speaking “in a code.” The president who had the foresight to bar the White House photographer from his presence on January 6th, and leave no phone trail that day, seems unlikely to have left incriminating evidence lying around Mar-a-Lago.

The raid appears to stem from an investigation into how he handled classified information

America faces the possibility of an indicted or convicted candidate winning a presidential election while campaigning against the rule of law.

The constitution, which spells out the qualifications for serving as president, is silent on the question of a criminal record.

Mr Trump was able to present himself in his favourite light, as the victim of dark, partisan forces out to protect the establishment by dragging him down.

“Another day in paradise,”

When to use intuition in the workplace rests on its own form of pattern recognition.

Managers often suffer from analytical overshadowing, mulling a simple problem until it turns into a complex one.

The value of many managerial decisions lies in the simple fact that they have been made at all.

coming face to face with a lion.

“I’d like to understand how we are measuring success,”

completely zoned out

a succession of choices, a few big and many small: what to prioritise, when to intervene, whom to avoid in the lifts and, now, where to work each day.

people make over 200 decisions a day about food alone.

Plenty of research has shown that intuition becomes more unerring with experience.

Gut instincts can also be improved (call it “probiotic management”).

Processes are increasingly designed to stamp out instinctive responses.

when to trust your gut and when to test your assumptions

During impulse propagation in the neurons of the brain, at the level of the synaptic knob of specific neurons, there is the release of Nitric Oxide which is a neurotransmitter. This Nitric Oxide then diffuses into the blood capillaries surrounding the neurons and it is transported to the lungs where it diffuses into the Alveoli and it is expired. The presence of this gas in the outer space influences the thought or state of consciousness of the indi-vidual around the area covered by the gas. This is done through inspiration of the gas which is transported to the brain by the circulatory system where it acts as a neurotransmitter to the neurons specific to it and produces the same thoughts. Much is not to be said about this means of communication because the quantity of gas produce and the area covered are mild

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tobuildingthenewBureauofCyberspaceandDigitalPolicyintoastronginstitution,

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open,transparentstandards

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promoteaglobaldigitaleconomythatletsU.S.companiesandtheirworkerscompeteonanequalplayingfieldaroundtheworld

First,wemuststrengthenadherencetotheframeworkofresponsiblestatebehaviorthatallUNmemberstateshaveendorsed.

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Recommendation: Information procedures should provide incentivesfor sharing, to restore a better balance between security and sharedknowledge

is the human or sys-temic resistance to sharing information.

What all these stories have in common is a system that requires a demon-strated “need to know” before sharing.This approach assumes it is possible toknow, in advance, who will need to use the information. Such a system implic-itly assumes that the risk of inadvertent disclosure outweighs the benefits ofwider sharing.Those Cold War assumptions are no longer appropriate.The cul-ture of agencies feeling they own the information they gathered at taxpayerexpense must be replaced by a culture in which the agencies instead feel theyhave a duty to the information—to repay the taxpayers’ investment by makingthat information available.

In our research on Russian state-backed media coverage of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, we show how attributable state media outlets, posting on Facebook, strategically employed race and racism to simultaneously promote the movement (on some channels) and undermine it (on others).

coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB)

Russia has a long history of “full spectrum” information operations that span the range of available communication mediums.

Meta announced plans to demote Russian state-backed media (including regional channels) on Facebook and Instagram,

The Russia-Ukraine war has shown that platforms are not simply neutral or commercial entities: Their policies make them arbiters of geopolitics, and the decisions they make—or don’t make, in the case of Telegram—can mean life or death during times of war, conflict, and violence.

ncluding non-Western platforms like Telegram

by using official embassy accounts a

Telegram limited access to RT and Sputnik channels for those users who signed up with a European phone number, and TikTok adopted some transparency and labeling policies, expediting the rollout of state-backed media labels to Russian state-backed media.

YouTube blocked Russian state-funded media channels from operating globally,

transparency and labeling policies.

to state-backed media

On TikTok in particular, editorial teams employ millennial language and meme culture that mixes Russian state political content with dance videos and life hacks.

In the United States during the civil rights movement, for example, incidents of racism were published and amplified by Soviet media as a broader strategic effort to highlight American hypocrisy and undermine the United States’ position on the world stage.

overt information operations and the rise of social media propaganda on alternative platforms like Telegram.

However, even as the Western conversation focuses on Facebook, Twitter, and Alphabet’s successes and failures, state war propaganda is increasingly prevalent on platforms that offer minimal-moderation virality as their value proposition.

Solve Reader Problems with Better Book Descriptions (for Non-Fiction)

It’s all about knowing what works, not about doing what works.

How well does it scale down?

if it’s invisible when the cover is shrunken down into a thumbnail.

what your book cover will look like as a thumbnail.

Smaller, unobtrusive, unobvious type tucked into the bottom of the page sends a pretty clear psychological message: This author isn’t important.

ur title can help move the reader’s eye across the page in one direction, and that’s handy. But as a graphic, the title can do the same job in multiple directions, through its style and orientation.

Titles are written—and we read from left to right. So titles usually need to be in a left-to-right position in our ‘Z’. For example, if you put the title at the top of the book, it’s the top of the ‘Z.’ And the bottom of the book—well, you get the idea.

Nothing wrecks a pretty picture faster than a title.

Controlling eye flow in an image allows you to invoke a sense of movement, and thus action. Action sells books. Invoking it is good.

But a good rule of thumb is to mimic the eye movement of reading. Because your cover can be the primer for the experience you want your will-be reader to have.

left to right and then down the page, and as that happens you’re engaged and your interest is empowering your comprehension. If your eyes weren’t moving over this page, it would just be blocks of gray—nothing but a sailboat hidden in plain sight.

is flow.

The second philosophy to bear in mind for cover imagery is professionalism. The image needs to tell the reader that A) you have the resources and the means to do this work at a standard above the hobby level, and B) you have the kind of respect for your readers that empowers, enables, and compels you to give them your best.

the reader’s attention to the problem you are solving.

the non-fiction covers that perform best are nearly always simple in design, with all of the reader’s attention focused on the title and subtitle.

An image related to your topic is the way to go, but there’s nothing that says you can’t push the symbolism a little.

We can scan an entire digital page or an entire physical display of books, and in seconds we’ll spot the one or two that make us feel that little twinge of excitement.

Humans are lazy. We’re constantly looking for ways to shortcut the decision-making process, and that includes looking for anything useful in helping us decide what we should read next.

Few things sell your book as successfully to a new reader as your cover.

we recommend self-publishing through IngramSpark for expanded distribution of paperbacks and ePub eBooks

if you use KDP for expanded distribution, IngramSpark cannot accept your book—at all (it’s complicated).

“If earlier in my career, I had been sent to be a general services officer in the management section in, say, Kazakhstan, and I’d learned how to fix people’s toilets, it probably would have prepared me better to be DCM in Warsaw,” Munter said.

A novice to diplomacy, Ashe was “grateful” to learn how the system worked and “didn’t boss you around,” Munter said, which was “most of my experience with political appointees.”

“You are utterly at their mercy” in order to be able to function, Munter added. While still in Warsaw, he also served under a political ambassador, former Knoxville, Tenn., mayor Victor Ashe.

For months, Lukens “acted as a buffer” between Johnson and the mission’s staff, “essentially protecting the embassy from some of his more outlandish demands.”

More political ambassadors fired their DCMs during the Trump administration than during any other administration in recent memory, he noted.

The DCM has to take care of the entire embassy community.

On one hand, they are in the host-country under the authority of the chief of mission, but on the other, those from agencies such as the Departments of Defense and Justice still report to their bosses in Washington.

kind of like a chief operating officer, but without the authority that most COOs have.

I was Mr. Inside,” and the ambassador was “Mr. Outside,” which didn’t mean that “I was cut off from the outside world.”

He noted that, since at least a third of U.S. ambassadorships — or chief of mission positions — go to political appointees, DCM is as high as many senior career diplomats aim to rise in the hierarchy.

From securing semi-conductor supply chains to regulating data flows, techno-nationalism is on the political agenda of western democracies and eastern nations alike. Over the next two years as the government seeks to put in place a comprehensive digital regulatory framework governing data, privacy, apps and algorithms, engaging the first digital generation of new voters on techno-nationalism will be crucial at every step.

While China requires licences for online games by a dedicated gaming regulator, Indonesia requires formal registration to be compliant with local laws governing what are called “private electronic systems”.

We are already witnessing a wave of regulatory moves from Indonesia on not just controlling online gaming apps and services but also actively promoting indigenously developed gaming apps.

Creative engagement of this digital-first generation would perhaps require interactive live streaming on platforms like Twitch apart from volunteer engagement efforts through “servers” on Discord.

While YouTube and WhatsApp are most likely their primary sources of news to them, Facebook and Twitter are already legacy social media platforms belonging to an earlier era.

as this cohort barely reads newspapers or watches conventional television.

that online gaming has nearly five times the number of users relative to those using the internet for online education.

this generation came of age with the touchscreen revolution. Their teen years witnessed an explosive growth in smartphone usage. This is also the generation that had the highest exposure to online education due to Covid-19 vastly increasing their screen time and use of internet tools and services.

As India’s largest cohort that has been “Digital First” from the cradle, this generation of first-time voters has experienced all the significant digital shifts in their formative years.

withdrawing the earlier proposed Personal Data Protection Bill,

the world’s most unique digital polity of first-time, non-English internet users who think, act and transact “mobile first”.

The People’s Republic of China (PRC), by contrast, sees the region as an important arena to challenge the rules-based international order, advance its own narrow commercial and geopolitical interests, undermine transparency and openness, and weaken U.S. relations with African peoples and governments.

it represents one of the largest regional voting groups (28 percent) at the UN and other multilateral bodies

30percent of the critical minerals that power our modern world

to facilitate the provision of online undergraduate and certificate-level courses in science, technology, engineering, and math fields.

a broader range of skills and knowledge

digital democracy programming, defend against digital authoritarianism, fight back against disinformation, combat gender-based online harassment and abuse, and establish standards for responsible conduct in cyberspace

while advocating for open technology platforms like Open RAN t

ndersea cables, expanding the number of data centers, and investing in dynamic African businesse

a digital ecosystem built on open, reliable, interoperable, and secure interne

an initiative on digital transformation

o support sustainable development “accelerators”: digital transformation, particularly in financial services and records

combating digital authoritarianism,

ocus on digital ecosystems

Ideja o globalnom sukobu između dobra i zla manipulativna je i besmislena. Nemoguće je prihvatiti tvrdnju da je svet crno-beo, kada je svuda natopljen ljudskom krvlju.

Masakr, koji je zgrozio Afričku uniju, prošao je gotovo nezapaženo u Evropi, kao i mnogi drugi slični događaji koji se ne uklapaju u kontekst zapadnog koncepta dobra i zla.

Ovo više nije geopolitika, već odgovara klasičnoj definiciji haosa u nastanku. Cela stvar liči na bure baruta iz koga viri mnoštvo fitilja. Biće dovoljno da se samo jedan zapali.

Tektonske promene menjaju svetski odnos snaga, ali su i zapadni lideri ti koji neprincipijelnošću i hroničnom dvoličnošću potkopavaju tlo pod svojim nogama. Svet kao da klizi u ludilo. Ništa više ne izgleda stvarno, ništa nije opipljivo i smisleno.

Erdogan im je pre nekoliko nedelja blokirao put ka NATO-u, a sada ratifikaciju sporazuma u turskom parlamentu uslovljava zahtevom finskim i švedskim vlastima da deportuju u Tursku desetine ljudi koje je njegov režim optužio za terorizam. To su kurdski aktivisti i članovi progonjenog muslimanskog pokreta gulenista u Turskoj, nazvanog po najvećem političkom protivniku Erdogana, Fetulahu Gulenu, koji živi u egzilu u Sjedinjenim Državama.

Njegova glavna agenda u Teheranu bila je da dobije podršku Rusije i Putina za upad na kurdske teritorije u severnoj Siriji. On tamo želi da napravi tampon zonu koja bi se protezala 480 kilometara duž turske granice i dopirala duboko u unutrašnjost Sirije. Na ovom prostoru on planira da naseli do tri miliona arapskih sunitskih izbeglica koje sada žive u Turskoj, što podrazumeva etničko čišćenje lokalnog kurdskog stanovništva.

Putin je pokazao Ukrajini i međunarodnoj zajednici da u svakom trenutku može da parališe izvoz žitarica u svet, što po svoj prilici znači da će bombama ucenjivati zapadne sile da ublaže sankcije prema Rusiji.

da su Rusija i Iran sada „ujedinjena tvrđava“.

potpisali su sporazum o saradnji, po kome će Gazprom pomoći Iranu da razvija gasna i naftna polja, a očekuje se da će Iran uskoro Rusiji prodati još stotinu vojnih dronova za nastavak rata u Ukrajini.

Saudijski ministar inostranih poslova Adel al Džubeir, koji je prisustvovao sastanku, negirao je ovu izjavu, rekavši da to nije čuo.

u vezi sa ubistvom palestinsko-američke novinarke Širin Abu Akle, koju su izraelski vojnici ubili 11. maja. I u pravu je. Bajden i drugi zapadni lideri su postepeno izgubili svaki moralni kredibilitet pred licem sveta.

Centar svetske moći pomera se sa zapada na istok, iz Vašingtona u Peking, a bin Salman je sve skloniji povezivanju sa Kinom.

Ukratko, Bajden je došao da zamoli bin Salmana da pumpa više nafte, jer bi to ublažilo inflaciju u Americi i ubrzalo njen ekonomski rast. Bin Salmanov odgovor bio je kratak: ne.

Fotografija koja simbolizuje ovaj proces prikazuje ostarelog američkog predsednika Džoa Bajdena i mladog saudijskog princa Mohameda bin Salmana kako se nestašno pozdravljaju pesnicama tokom Bajdenove posete Saudijskoj Arabiji 15. jula.

odnos snaga u svetu se menja na štetu zapadnih sila.

Od početka pandemije u proleće 2020. broj ljudi koji pate od gladi ili hronične neuhranjenosti porastao je za 150 miliona, tako da ih je prošle godine bilo 828 miliona.

sam po sebi je svetski rat, jer njegove negativne posledice oseća ceo svet.

sam po sebi je svetski rat, jer njegove negativne posledice oseća ceo svet.

when states cooperatewith the hegemon not because they feel threatened but to achieve mutual gains,we describe this as institutional binding

Bandwagoning should occur when secondary statespartner with the hegemon in response to a perceived threat

Why your meetings are a waste of time

Breadth of the territorial sea

The island's air defense identification zone was actually the brainchild of the United States,

they are unilaterally declared buffer areas that extend beyond territorial airspace

China disregard international law norms left and right for decades

the five permanent members of the Security Council, including both China and the United States, have veto power, so they can block any UN attempt to enforce international law.

"It would run against international law, but international law is flimsy and open to the interpretation of every country that decides whether or not they want to follow it or enforce it,"

convention

"The reality is Taiwan exists. Taiwan is autonomous. It is effectively independent of any other country. It elects its own government, collects its own taxes, defends its own borders. So for all intents and purposes, Taiwan is a country,"

most of the world treated Taiwan as if it were an independent country

China is a signatory to UNCLOS, signing on December 10, 1982, and ratifying it in 1996. Taiwan is not.

the Versailles Declaration

Roadmap for Digital Cooperation

he UN Secretary-General’s “Our Common Agenda” report,

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the EU Cybersecurity Strategy

he Strategic Compass

the “2030 Digital Compass: the European Way for the Digital Decade”

Lisbon Declaration on Digital Democracy with a Purpose

Berlin Declaration on Digital Society and Value-based Digital Government

the Tallinn Declaration on eGovernment

he European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles for the Digital Decade,

EU-LAC Digital Alliance

the Republic of Korea

A digital compass for 2030: Europe marking the digital decade

Tallinn Declaration on eGovernment

The European Union and the Republic of Korea advance their strategic partnership at annual Joint Committee meeting