Bill Rice

Nov 4, 2024 | brownstone.org | Bill Rice

According to this NPR article, “The Washington Post has been rocked by a tidal wave of cancellations from digital subscribers and a series of resignations from columnists, as the paper grapples with the fallout of owner Jeff Bezos’s decision to block an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

Oct 30, 2024 | bbc.com | Bill Rice

Manchester United appear to be moving quickly to find a permanent successor to Erik ten Hag, to avoid a repeat of the situation in December 2018. When Jose Mourinho was sacked, they appointed a club legend in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as interim boss, who went on to win his first eight matches in charge and go 11 games unbeaten. Their upturn in form, coupled with a famous Champions League win over Paris St-Germain in Paris, convinced the club to give him the job permanently.

Oct 18, 2024 | bbc.co.uk | Bill Rice

Pep Guardiola's future is no clearer despite the England job no longer being an option for him, although the clock is ticking on whether he will continue at Manchester City beyond the current season. At his pre-Wolves news conference, the Blues boss would not say if he was approached by the FA, but did congratulate new England manager Thomas Tuchel on his appointment.

Jul 4, 2024 | todayville.com | Bill Rice

From the Brownstone InstituteBy Karma has caught up with the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), which will be scaled back to just three staff, according to the Washington Post. The contracts of its leading protagonists, Alex Stamos and Renee DiResta, have not been renewed. It was former CIA fellow Renee DiResta who led SIO’s signature initiatives, the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) and the Virality Project (VP).

Jul 2, 2024 | brownstone.org | Bill Rice

In the last four years of our Orwellian New Abnormal, the following thoughts occurred to me countless times:What the world desperately needs is far more brave whistleblowers. What we need is an active and robust WikiLeaks…or far more organizations that perform the vital work of WikiLeaks. The reasons this has not occurred are, of course, obvious. The main reason is that the people who could disclose important information about government or Deep State crimes are simply terrified to do this.