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Travis Air Force Base and surrounding land in Solano County, Calif. Image: Google Maps Since 2017, a shadowy Silicon Valley company has bought up 52,000 acres of farmland around Travis Air Force Base in Solano County, Calif., totaling about $800 million.Flannery Associates is a company run by Jan Sramek, a 36-year-old former Goldman Sachs trader. Beyond that, nothing much is known of the company except that some of the most famous names in Silicon Valley have invested in a project being promoted by Flannery. Some backers include Marc Andreessen, Powell Jobs, Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital, LinkedIn co-founder Reid...

The US is gearing up to conduct the Large Scale Exercise 2023 from August 9 to 18, which will see the combined firepower of the Navy and Marine Corps teams across six maritime component commands, seven numbered fleets, and 22 time zones. During a media event at US Fleet Forces Command on July 24, Adm. Daryl Caudle, commander of US Fleet Forces Command, and Lt. Gen. Brian Cavanaugh, commander of Marine Forces Command, announced the forthcoming Large Scale Exercise (LSE) 2023.

A writer who publicly mocked the victim of a sex assault has resigned from his post at the London School of Economics after only two days. Nir Rosen, 33, stepped down from his role as a visiting fellow after the university was criticised for employing him. He got the job at LSE just weeks after resigning in disgrace from New York University for making fun of Lara Logan, a CBS correspondent who was attacked and sexually assaulted by a mob while covering protest in Egypt. He wrote a series of comments about the reporter on his Twitter page and said...

The day that LSE sold its soul to Libya: BP chief makes oil deal with Gaddafi... and drags prestigious university into disrepute By Michael Seamark Last updated at 1:33 AM on 5th March 2011 . •BP boss who signed £545m oil pact was lobbying for university too In a desert tent outside Colonel Gaddafi's home town of Sirte four years ago, Tony Blair shook hands with the Libyan dictator in a controversial 'blood money' deal which laid the foundations for the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Also inside the tent was Peter Sutherland, then chairman of BP, who subsequently announced...

LSE head quits over Gaddafi scandal LSE director Howard Davies resigns after fresh allegations over links to Libyan regime as PR firm admits errors over lobbying Jeevan Vasagar and Rajeev Syal The Guardian, Friday 4 March 2011 Howard Davies has resigned as director of the London School of Economics. Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe for the Guardian A deepening row over the London School of Economics and its dealings with the Gaddafi regime has claimed the career of the university's director. Sir Howard Davies resigned after fresh revelations that the institution had been involved in a deal worth £2.2m to train hundreds...

PREFACE HOW THIS BOOK CAME TO BE WRITTEN By Zygmund Dobbs In 1957 a Harvard alumni group asked this writer to initiate a study of leftist infiltration at Harvard University. Previous efforts to find a qualified Harvard alumnus for the task had proved unfruitful. This was a period when America was still in shock over scandals involving traitorous government officials in the service of the Stalinist terror apparatus. Disloyal Ivy leaguers had used the wealth and resources of the United States to undermine their own country. Incredibly, at the same time, they were able to betray over 600 million people...

London Stock Exchange trading hit by computer crash By Jamie Dunkley Last Updated: 11:18am BST 08/09/2008 Trading on the London Stock Exchange has been halted after a computer system failed on one of the most frantic days of trading seen so far this year. No orders can be entered and no trade executions will occur, the exchange said on its website. The LSE plans to bring back trading in a “controlled way’’, but couldn't say how long that will take. The glitch comes at a time when the LSE is facing strong competition from several rivals and on a day...

LSE and Lehman’s platform to have ‘dark pool’ By Jeremy Grant in London Published: June 25 2008 21:13 | Last updated: June 26 2008 00:13 The London Stock Exchange will on Thursday unveil a new, pan-European equities trading platform in a joint venture with Lehman Brothers to fight rivals that are eroding its market share. The move is the first sign that Dame Clara Furse, LSE chief executive, has an aggressive strategy to combat the exchange’s competitors. The move comes only days after the LSE lost out to its rival NYSE Euronext for a 25 per cent stake in Qatar’s...

Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky is heading to Britain to study in a Masters in Psychology program at the prestigious London School of Economics. The curvy 32-year-old, who shocked the world when reports of her sex antics with former President Bill Clinton hit newsstands, completed her first degree in psychology in 1995 before she started work for the former U.S. leader. Although the program incurs a staggering $22,000 for non-European students, the fee shouldn't pose a problem for Lewinsky -- she reportedly commanded six-figure payouts for her revealing interviews after Clinton's autobiography was published last year.

The youngest daughter of John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, has won a scholarship to study in London next year, her father told reporters at the weekend. Vanessa Kerry, 27, a student at Harvard Medical School, will study for a master's degree in health and economics from the London School of Economics and the London School of Tropical Medicine. Vanessa Kerry [right] with her older sister Alex Miss Kerry has forged a second career as a star of the presidential election campaign. She was sent on the road to tell affectionate and often gently mocking anecdotes about her "warm" and...

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS A BIG PROBLEM named Susan Lindauer, but you would never know this from the reporting by America’s dominant Left-leaning news media. Last Thursday Ms. Lindauer, 41, was arrested in her suburban Washington, D.C. home and charged with “prohibited financial transactions” from, acting as “an unregistered agent of,” and “conspiring” to act as a spy, both before and after the incursion a year ago, for Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS). Known in Arabic as the Mukhabbarat, the IIS has reportedly been involved in terrorist operations, intimidating and killing Iraqi defectors and dissidents, and according to Anwar...