The delegation’s collective wealth exceeds US$1.07 trillion, according to data from Forbes and United States Securities and Exchange Commission filings compiled by Quiver Quantitative, and each member holds a significant commercial stake in the bilateral relationship.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk leads the group with a personal net worth of US$827 billion, representing over 77 per cent of the delegation’s total wealth.
Archiv: Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) / Konzernführer
Jeffrey Epstein Recruited NSA Codebreakers for Genome “Manhattan Project”
(February 10, 2026)
For the next decade, Epstein continued to recruit engineers from U.S. national security entities, including DARPA, to his genome hacking project. He asked Kathryn Ruemmler, the White House attorney who had handled the legal fallout from the Edward Snowden leaks, to help him source cryptographers from the National Security Agency. “Can you find a guy from nsa that can think about signal intelligence applied to DNA,” Epstein wrote . “I want to intercept communication between living cells in organisms.”
In late 2012, he had sent the same request to Boris Nikolic, Bill Gates’ top aide: “do you have any contacts at nsa so that we can use de encypriton (sic) in biological systems?” “Yes,” Nikolic replied, “There are no many places where I do not have someone ;)”
High-profile resignations and replacements as Epstein case fallout spreads
Apart from the former Prince Andrew, none of them face claims of sexual wrongdoing. They have been toppled for maintaining friendly relationships with Epstein after he became a convicted sex offender.
Here’s a look at some of those caught up in the scandal:
Dubai‘s DP World boss removed from post after pressure over Epstein
Pressure had been building on the Emirati logistics firm after two organisations, the UK development finance agency and Canada‘s second-largest pension fund, said this week they would suspend all new investment with DP World over Bin Sulayem‘s alleged Epstein ties.
Powerful Dubai tycoon replaced after DOJ reveals sexually explicit emails with Epstein
Epstein affectionately described bin Sulayem, whose name appears thousands of times in the latest batch, as “funny,” “educated,” “a master” and a “best and trusted friend.”
The messages between Epstein and bin Sulayem reveal an intimate, yearslong friendship replete with misogynistic descriptions of women and girls, sexually explicit material, business proposals and a reference to an alleged torture video that has drawn scrutiny in the US Congress.
Herzog Presents Presidential Award to Miriam Adelson and pro-Israel German Media Mogul
(October 22, 2025)
Israel‘s President Isaac Herzog awarded the 2025 Presidential Medal of Honor on Wednesday to German media mogul Matthias Döpfner, known for promoting a pro-Israel line in his outlets, and to Israeli-U.S. megadonor Miriam Adelson, for their „unique contribution“ to Israel.
Döpfner, CEO of German media giant Axel Springer, the publisher of daily tabloid Bild and a close associate of Netanyahu, has been linked to the so-called Bibileaks affair involving the alleged leak of a classified document from Netanyahu‘s office to Bild in an attempt to influence Israeli public opinion concerning the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
I was in the room when Trump addressed leaders in Davos. Here are my top takeaways
Trump was met with loud applause as he took the stage for what many billed as the most closely watched speech of this year’s Davos.
He opened by saying it was good to see so many friends and “some enemies,” drawing laughter from the crowd. From there, he leaned heavily into self-assessment, describing himself as the most successful president and pointing to what he said were his major achievements accomplished in just one year….
Jeffrey Epstein‘s wills listed former bank CEOs and other Wall Street figures as possible estate executors
As he planned for his death, Jeffrey Epstein listed powerful friends and associates from Wall Street as the people who would take care of his affairs.
Versions of Epstein‘s will released Tuesday by the Justice Department featured former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, former Barclays CEO Jes Staley, and former Bear Stearns CEO Jimmy Cayne as potential executors of his estate.
Top BBC bosses resign after criticism of the broadcaster’s editing of a Trump speech
The head of the BBC and the British broadcaster’s top news executive both resigned Sunday after criticism of the way the organization edited a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump.
The BBC said Director-General Tim Davie and news CEO Deborah Turness had both decided to leave the corporation.
WATCH: Microsoft President speaks after pro-Palestinian protesters breached office
Streamed live 18 hours ago #komo #komonews #komo4
HAPPENING NOW: Microsoft is holding a press conference after pro-Palestinian protesters breached Microsoft executives‘ building at the Redmond campus.
A group of current and former Microsoft employees staged a sit-in at the company’s headquarters Tuesday, occupying Building 34, which houses the office of Microsoft President Brad Smith and other executives.
The protest is part of an ongoing series of actions by employees and activists criticizing the company’s business ties to Israel.
Business leaders call on UK Government for concrete action on Gaza
We add our voices to those already demanding the following actions:
1. The full and unrestricted entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, at scale, and with urgency, by qualified aid agencies.
2. The cessation of all UK arms transfers — including parts — to Israel in line with the UK’s legal obligations under the Arms Trade Treaty (which prohibits transfers where they could be ‘used to commit acts of genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes’).
3. The introduction of targeted sanctions against all individuals and entities credibly accused of violating international law, including war crimes.
4. Support for international legal mechanisms, including investigations by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and International Criminal Court (ICC), and full UK diplomatic support to secure the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages.
As business leaders, we also call on the UK Government to:
– Suspend ALL export licences for goods that could be directly or indirectly implicated in military operations in Gaza – without exception.
– Partial measures are not enough to prevent UK complicity in breaches of international law.
– Broaden financial sanctions and investment screening to stop UK financing of companies complicit in violations of international law.
– Current efforts must go further to close gaps in enforcement.
– Enforce the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights across all UK-linked supply chains and financial systems.
The UK must ensure that no business – whether through products, services, or supply chains – is contributing to these atrocities, directly or indirectly.
Microsoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack Palestinians
Unit 8200, roughly equivalent in function to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), has transferred audio files of millions of calls by Palestinians in the occupied territories onto Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, Azure, operationalizing what is likely one of the world’s largest and most intrusive collections of surveillance data over a single population group. This is according to interviews with 11 Microsoft and Israeli intelligence sources in addition to a cache of leaked internal Microsoft documents obtained by the Guardian.
In a meeting at Microsoft’s headquarters in Seattle in late 2021, the then-head of Unit 8200, Yossi Sariel, won the support of the tech giant’s CEO, Satya Nadella, to develop a customized and segregated area within Azure that has facilitated the army’s mass surveillance project. According to the sources, Sariel approached Microsoft because the scope of Israel’s intelligence on millions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza is so vast that it cannot be stored on military servers alone.
Twitter didn’t just block unregistered users, it blocked Google Search
(July 3, 2023)
Postscript. A few days later, Twitter implemented some SEO changes that showed the content from tweets to both Google and users, but overlayed a modal asking users to register. This allowed Google to regain access to the content for indexing and search ranking purposes.
Elon Musk says Twitter’s ad revenue is down 50% and cash flow is negative
Just 43% of Twitter’s top 1,000 advertisers as of September, the month before Musk’s takeover, were still advertising on the platform as of April, according to data provided to CNN by market intelligence firm Sensor Tower last month.
Signature execs sold $100 million in stock in three years pre-bailout
(April 4, 2023)
The insider sales went largely unnoticed because Signature Bank, unlike most other S&P 500 companies, filed documents with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation instead of the Securities and Exchange Commission. (…)
The bank collapsed and was taken over by federal regulators last month, in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse.
WhatsApp and other messaging apps oppose ‚surveillance‘
(19.04.2023)
Mr Hodgson, of UK company Element, called the proposals a „spectacular violation of privacy… equivalent to putting a CCTV camera in everyone‘s bedroom“.
Mr Cathcart has told BBC News WhatsApp would rather be blocked in the UK than weaken the privacy of encrypted messaging.
Ms Whittaker has said the same – Signal „would absolutely, 100% walk“ should encryption be undermined.
Online Safety Bill: Große Messenger stemmen sich gemeinsam gegen britische Chatkontrolle
(18.04.2023)
Es könne kein „britisches Internet“ oder eine Version der Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung geben, die speziell auf das Vereinigte Königreich zugeschnitten ist. Die britische Regierung müsse das Gesetz deswegen dringend überarbeiten.
Der offene Brief enthält keine Ankündigung, was die Messenger machen würden, sollte die britische Regierung den Forderungen nicht nachkommen. In der Vergangenheit hatten aber einzelne Messenger-Anbieter aufgezeigt, in welche Richtung ihre Reaktion gehen würde. So will Threema es auf einen Rausschmiss ankommen lassen, und WhatsApp hatte einen Rückzug aus Großbritannien ins Spiel gebracht.
Open Letter to the British Government on the Online Safety Bill
(18.04.2023)
Global providers of end-to-end encrypted products and services cannot weaken the security of their products and services to suit individual governments. There cannot be a “British internet,” or a version of end-to-end encryption that is specific to the UK.
The UK Government must urgently rethink the Bill, revising it to encourage companies to offer more privacy and security to its residents, not less. Weakening encryption, undermining privacy, and introducing the mass surveillance of people’s private communications is not the way forward.
Signed by those who care about keeping our conversations secure:
Matthew Hodgson, CEO, Element
Alex Linton, Director, OPTF/Session
Meredith Whittaker, President, Signal
Martin Blatter, CEO, Threema
Ofir Eyal, CEO, Viber
Will Cathcart, Head of WhatsApp at Meta
Alan Duric, CTO, Wire
Amid Judicial Coup, Tech Unicorn Pulls $500 Million Out of Israel, Offers Relocation to Lisbon
The CEO of Riskified, an Israeli fraud-prevention company, said in a staff email that the judicial overhaul could lead to an economic downturn and put Israel on the path to authoritarianism.
Biden vows to hold those responsible for Silicon Valley Bank failure ‘fully accountable’
“I am firmly committed to holding those responsible for this mess fully accountable and to continuing our efforts to strengthen oversight and regulation of larger banks so that we are not in this position again,” he added.
Telegram hält sich neuerdings an Gesetze, zumindest ein bisschen
(03.06.2022)
Die Betreiber der Messenger-App Telegram haben – anders als bislang öffentlich dargestellt – in mehreren Fällen Nutzerdaten an das Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) herausgegeben. Dabei handelte es sich nach SPIEGEL-Informationen um Daten Verdächtiger aus den Bereichen Kindesmissbrauch und Terrorismus.
Wir haben Kontakt zur Konzernspitze von #Telegram hergestellt. In einem ersten konstruktiven Gespräch zur weiteren Zusammenarbeit haben wir vereinbart, den Austausch fortzusetzen und zu intensivieren. Dieser Schritt ist ein guter Erfolg, auf dem wir aufbauen werden.
(Feb 4, 2022)
Telegram’s moved to the Middle East ‘out of principle’
(Dec 13 2017)
Pavel Durov, creator of Russian social network VKontakte and the Telegram messenger app, has revealed in an interview to Bloomberg why he’s chosen to rent office space in the United Arab Emirates.
Telegram Review 2022: NOT as Private as You Think
(June 20, 2022)
– Cons
– Registration requires a phone number
– E2E encryption only for Secret Chats
– Servers are not open source
– Logs IP Address and other user data (use a good VPN service)
– May be sharing data with government agencies
1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES
(03.12.2022)
2. What you’re about to read is the first installment in a series, based upon thousands of internal documents obtained by sources at Twitter.
3. The “Twitter Files” tell an incredible story from inside one of the world’s largest and most influential social media platforms. It is a Frankensteinian tale of a human-built mechanism grown out the control of its designer.
Note to Readers
(Dec 2, 2022)
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Fenstersturz: Mysteriöser Tod von Lukoil-Chef
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