In a breach of protocol and following his warning after his meeting with Xi to Taipei to not speak of independence, Trump says he intends to hold direct talks with Taiwan’s president, the first time a US leader has done so since 1979. 
As indications that the US is preparing for conflict, former Cuban leader Raรบl Castro is indicted by the US department of justice for the 1996 downing of two airplanes. Reports emerge that the US and Israel had hoped to put controversial populist ex-president Mahmud Ahmadinejad in power with the opening salvo of the war and the bombing campaign that killed the Supreme Leader, hoping to free Ahmadinejad from house arrest but underestimating support for the regime with apparently the former president souring on the idea of the coup as the fighting intensified.
synchronoptica
one year ago: the Heidelberg Asparagus Supper (with synchronopticรฆ) plus NASA sells an iconic property
twelve years ago: privacy and HIPAA
thirteen years ago: laser-cut recordings
fourteen years ago: frictionless markets plus codified disinformation
sixteen years ago: synthetic cells
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