State control of big media is one of the first steps to total consolidation of power.

@georgetakei @benroyce

$24 billion of the financing for Ellison’s takeover of CNN is coming from Gulf sovereign wealth funds: Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Qatar. The same governments Ellison pitched his unified citizen database to in Dubai.

About a hundred pages into the proxy, buried in the subscription agreements, there’s a provision that says the Ellison Trust can assign, meaning hand off, portions of its commitment to other investors after the deal is signed.

https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/the-war-that-funded-a-merger

The War That Funded A Merger

We are on day 27 of the war with Iran, and somewhere in that fog there is a truth about alliances that nobody in Washington will say out loud: you do not investigate your wartime partners.

The Drey Dossier