Zelenskyy’s Hudson Institute speech cancelled
As part of his visit to Washington DC, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy was meant to speak at the conservative Hudson Institute tonight, after meeting Trump.
But this has now been cancelled, Reuters just confirmed.
" Hudson Institute was founded in 1961] by Herman Kahn, Max Singer, and Oscar M. Ruebhausen. Kahn was a Cold War icon, often interviewed in magazines, who was purported to have the highest IQ on record next to Noam Chomsky and partly inspired the 1964 movie Dr. Strangelove.
In 1960, while employed at the RAND Corporation, Kahn had given a series of lectures at Princeton University on scenarios related to nuclear war. In 1960,
Hudson's initial research projects largely represented Kahn's personal interests, which included the domestic and military use of nuclear power and scenario planning exercises about policy options and their possible outcomes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Institute
Kahn did not want Hudson limited to defense-related research, and along with Singer, he recruited a staff from diverse academic backgrounds. Hudson also involved a wide range of consultants for analysis and policy, including French philosopher Raymond Aron,[37] African-American novelist Ralph Ellison,[20] political scientist Henry Kissinger, conceptual artist James Lee Byars,[38] and social scientist Daniel Bell.[37]
Its focus expanded to include geopolitics,[39] economics,[40] demography, anthropology, science and technology,[39] education,[41] and urban planning most of which has been de-funded by Trump besides play-bunkers for bonga bonga.
Kahn in 1962 predicted the rise of Japan as the world's second-largest economy and developed close ties to politicians and corporate leaders there
After Kahn's sudden death at age 61 on July 7, 1983,[55] Hudson was restructured. Recruited by the City of Indianapolis and the Lilly Endowment, Hudson relocated its headquarters to Indiana in 1984.[11] In 1987, Mitch Daniels, a former aide to Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) and President Ronald Reagan, was appointed CEO.[56]
William Eldridge Odom,[57] former director of the National Security Agency, became Hudson's director of national security studies;
economist Alan Reynolds became director of economic research.[59] Technologist George Gilder led a project on the implications of the digital era for American society.[60][61][62]
In 1990, Daniels quit to become vice president of corporate affairs at Eli Lilly and Company.
"in 2001, President George W. Bush's initiative on charitable choice was based on Hudson's research into social-service programs administered by faith-based organizations"
In September 2023, the Hudson Institute was designated as an "undesirable organization" in Russia.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen spoke at the Hudson Institute in support of Israel in October 2023 after the Hamas-led attack.[
The speech was coordinated with the White House as President Joe Biden urged Congress to approve additional aid to support Ukraine and Israel"
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Hudson Institute is funded by donations from individuals, foundations, and corporations.[106] Notable funders of the Institute include the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.[106]
As of 2021, the organization reported revenue of over $37m with under $20m in expenses and an endowment of $81m.[13]
Hudson Institute has accepted $7.9m from Donors Trust.
It has received $25,000 from Exxon Mobil since 1998 and less than $100,000 from Koch family foundations,
both of which actively minimize climate change
The New York Times commented on Dennis Avery's attacks on organic farming: "The attack on organic food by a well-financed research organization suggests that, though organic food accounts for only 1 percent of food sales in the United States, the conventional food industry is worried".[
Another employee of the institute, Michael Fumento, was revealed to have received funding from Monsanto for his 1999 book Bio-Evolution. Monsanto's spokesman said:
"It's our practice, that if we're dealing with an organization like this, that any funds we're giving should be unrestricted.
The New York Times suggested Huntington Ingalls Industries had used the Hudson Institute to enhance the company's argument for more nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, at a cost of US$11 billion each.
The Times alleged that a former naval officer was paid by Hudson to publish an analysis endorsing more funding.
The report was delivered to the House Armed Services subcommittee without disclosing that Huntington Ingalls had paid for part of the report.
Hudson acknowledged the misconduct, describing it as a "mistake" or Crime, so sue me Mr kissinger-hater.
Hudson launched the Kleptocracy Initiative in response to Russia's first invasion and occupation of Ukrainian Crimea in 2014.
In 2016, Hudson's Kleptocracy Initiative issued a report, authored by Ben Judah, sounding the alarm about offshore financial flows, and calling for the end of anonymous shell companies as a US national security priority.[
The Hudson Institute received criticism by a member of its Kleptocracy Initiative advisory board when its 2018 awards gala was funded in part by Len Blavatnik, a magnate who had business dealings with Russian oligarchs who were on the United States sanctions list"
"Zelenskyy’s Hudson Institute speech cancelled
As part of his visit to Washington DC, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy was meant to speak at the conservative Hudson Institute tonight, after meeting Trump.
But this has now been cancelled, Reuters just confirmed."
No mineral deal signed, White House confirms
Not that we were in any doubt, but the White House has just confirmed that Trump and Zelenskyy did not sign a mineral deal during their talks today
"Trump repeatedly told Zelenskyy that he was “gambling with the lives of millions, with the third world war”,
and told him to stop holding out for further security guarantees saying “you’re either going to make a deal or we are out”.
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https://www.bushcenter.org/publications/europe-must-seize-russian-assets
European nations must reject this idea and seize all of the funds sitting in Europe in support of Ukraine.
Russia’s full-scale invasion has created one of the most perilous environments Europe has witnessed since the end of the Second World War. To meet the severity of the security crisis, the European Union (EU) must ratchet up its support for Ukraine.
To put it bluntly, the EU should confiscate the more than $200 billion frozen assets in EU financial institutions to fund Kyiv’s defenses.
