Hussain Sajwani founded DAMAC Properties. DAMAC owns, designed, built, financed Trump branded golf resorts in Dubai: infrastructure, licensing fees, construction. It will cost Canton, Ohio $3.7M to supply water to DAMAC Digital's AI site. Ohio residents are opposed.
www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve.... Hussain Sajwani, Emirati billionaire whose DAMAC pays Trump tens of millions for the Trump name on a Dubai golf resort, receives Trump's "expedited review" and Ohio infrastructure, water, utility access to build the first of 10 planned U.S. data centers.
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Luxury hotel developer Dar Global is designing and building a new Trump Tower in Dubai. Donald has been paid over $27M for his name on DG hotels in Oman and Dubai. In 2025 UAE invested $2B in World Liberty Financial. Now Trump wants the USA to pay for UAE's war slump.
From 2014 to 2024, Hussain Sajwani paid Trump between $14.1M and $30M in licensing and management fees at a Trump-branded golf course. Dar Global subsidiary of Saudi-based Dar Al Arkan is the firm responsible for developing and designing Trump-branded hotels and resorts in the Middle East.
Trump-connected projects being developed there have a combined value of @ $17 billion—with the bulk of that funding from sovereign wealth funds. Trump does not bankroll or own them. The Gulf economies were booming, partnering happily with the president’s personal businesses.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Built by Saudi developer Dar Global, on land provided by Oman outside its capital city Muscat, with seaside views. Branding deals like this don't require Trump capital or building skills: in 2024 he made $28.1M selling his name and TM goods in the area.
Tesla reported owing $0 in US federal taxes for all but one of the past 20 years. A Reuters analysis reveals how a common corporate tactic known as profit shifting likely saved the company more than $400 million in US taxes.
'Orbán waged a long-running war against Hungary’s cultural and academic institutions. As one of his advisers and lobbyists in Brussels, Frank Füredi...put it: “The most important theater of the cultural war is the war on the past.”'
Excellent analysis by a great Hungarian historian:
english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-... She and her husband, a Brazilian doctor, were arrested and charged with fraud at a cosmetic clinic following anonymous tips. She denies the charges, emphasizing that her deportation from the U.S. prevented her from defending herself. Her husband is out on bail.
english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-... She and her husband, a Brazilian doctor, were arrested and charged with fraud at a cosmetic clinic following anonymous tips. She denies the charges, emphasizing that her deportation from the U.S. prevented her from defending herself. Her husband is out on bail.
“Iran Says Hormuz Strait Will Close for Two Years for Renovations”
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Businesses are verging on insolvency. Governments are taking on enormous debt to slow inflation. By year’s end, in the dire projections by the United Nations and others, millions across the industrious Asian continent could be pushed into poverty. The world economy is slowing nearly everywhere.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/w... The region driving global economic growth for decades sees canceled flights, surging food prices, factory pauses, delayed shipments and empty shelves for products like plastic bags, instant noodles, vaccines, syringes, lipstick, microchips, sportswear.
Four decades on, Chernobyl remains too dangerous for humans. But the wildlife has moved back in. https://to.pbs.org/48Ge7DM
TY for putting that article up. My daughter was a Classical Civilization Major 25 yrs ago at BU. Clearly, no one in the Trump WH studied ancient history or how it repeats over time.
Trump’s relentless bullying ignores a central lesson from classical antiquity: Athens’s shift from benevolent hegemony to malevolent empire paved its road to ruin:
7th C B.C. city-states recognized a pre-eminent leader among them *Because of its Disproportionate Contribution to Collective Defense.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
The United Arab Emirates has begun discussions with US Treasury Sec Scott Bessent about securing a financial backstop in case the US-Israeli war with Iran sends the Gulf nation into a deeper crisis, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... When a society begins to break, the fault lines aren’t new. That is true in the U.S., where xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia are rampant, and where those in power have brought bigotry from the margins back to the fore. The same was true in France.
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Buttigieg's Transportation Department directed $25B in Biden funding to key areas: terminals and air traffic control (ATC). Funding was “delivered” to at least 400 airport terminal projects, and 1,600 ATC tower regeneration projects have been “completed.”
www.airport-technology.com/analysis/wha...
On 7 July 2024, over 3 million passed through US airport security, a single day record.
DOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg: “These investments modernize our ageing airport infrastructure to meet record demand, ensure safe, efficient travel into the future.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... There is a perverse logic to not wanting a presidential library and a proper exhibition, but instead a golden statue of himself and a 747 jet in the atrium: what accomplishments would there be to show?
Baglieri was not intoxicated or speeding. He faced 3 possible distractions of sun glare, a driver lingering in his blind spot, emergency flashing lights of vehicles opposite the intersection, making the light appear green.
Baglieri had no prior accidents in 12 years as a driver with his employer.
@repsummerlee.bsky.social served a #CupOfJoe to RFK Jr. with a latte
truth to power.
"Do you have an idea of how we could solve the Black maternal mortality crisis if we can't say 'Black?'"
The guy is a danger to society.
RFK Jr. Says Every Person Who Lost Health Insurance Is Illegal newrepublic.com/post/209235/... via @newrepublic.com Undocumented immigrants have never been eligible under the Affordable Care Act. The 1,400,000 who were priced out due to higher premiums under Trump were not illegals.
e360.yale.edu/digest/repub... Trump WH added $40 billion in new federal subsidies for oil, gas, and coal in 2025, adding $4 billion to the $30.8 billion given each year to fossil fuel companies over the next decade. Trump curbed tax credits for wind and solar, defunded clean energy grants.
Roberts argued that Obama's law effecting coal-fired plants was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately. Roberts ignored the fossil fuel industry receipt of $35 billion annually in federal subsidies.
