NEW: Records show that senior State Department officials in both D.C. and Gambia coordinated with Starlink execs to coax, lobby and browbeat Gambian government ministers to help Musk. One official said Gambia is under “maximum pressure” to yield.
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Pure abuse of power....pay for play...quid pro quo. This transactional approach is immoral and corrupt to the core--just like Musk and all the Trump family.
My conservative collages really believe MAGA is making deals for their economic interests. They will ignore anything to hang on to the belief that being a white, American born male makes you better at everything.
This is the kind of crap that has been changing world views about American businesses for decades.
They see our business approach mainly as corrupt, abusive and ill intended. It needs to stop.
The story confirms what a researcher at an international labor confederation told me when I asked about investment in education in the global south. Profits are made (risked in unstable political conditions) in extraction and infrastructure. Education and public service all face crushing austerity.
Why don't we start considering Starlink as a security and privacy risk. Musk now has virtually all our government data in a huge data repository for his AI effort. Methinks it will not be a benevolent version of 'The Machine' (Person of Interest).
AI kleptocracy. Something really damaged in the tech nazi. The richest man and still he has to cheat, destroy the structure of the US and democracy and manipulate to get more.
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Red notice from ICC, we need to arrest him and stop interfering in every country politics.
They see our business approach mainly as corrupt, abusive and ill intended. It needs to stop.
No wonder he has to use IVF.
It's disgusting
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Leon Smuk working side by side with a big government gun.