Gift diplomacy: How Qatar bought its way into America’s power circles

[ad_1] Qatar gives planes the way other countries give medals. Qatar’s offer to provide a $400 million Boeing 747 to the US government-to be potentially used as Air Force One-has reignited scrutiny of the Gulf monarchy’s decades-long strategy to buy influence across every corner of American power: Military, academia, politics, media, and business.The jet, dubbed […]

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‘Big B***s’ goes public: Elon Musk’s Gen Z whiz kid Edward Coristine speaks out on fraud, dead people, and fruit jam diplomacy

[ad_1] 19-year-old Edward Coristine, better known online as “Big Balls”, made his first public appearance as part of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) during a special edition of Watters’ World on Fox News. The teenager, who works in the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Technology, joined his Gen Z colleagues for a roundtable discussion […]

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