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China’s Rare Earth Restrictions Aim to Beat U.S. at Its Own Game
Beijing’s latest effort to weaponize global supply chains is modeled on the American technology controls that it has long criticized.
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Solution to CIA’s Kryptos Sculpture Is Found in Smithsonian Vault
Jim Sanborn planned to auction off the solution to Kryptos, the puzzle he sculpted for the intelligence agency’s headquarters. Two fans of the work then discovered the solution.
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Mamdani Is Making Overtures to Jewish Leaders. Some Are Listening.
Zohran Mamdani is stepping up his Jewish outreach, as he holds private meetings with rabbis and other leaders across New York City who oppose his stance on Israel.
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A Military Celebration Sparks Another Newsom-Trump Feud
Gov. Gavin Newsom had feared that the ceremony would send missiles over Interstate 5, but the Marines later said that its “live-fire” would be contained.
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Trump Hosts Dinner for Wealthy Donors to White House Ballroom
The president lauded dozens of executives and businesspeople for the “tremendous amounts of money” they have pledged for his project, which has prompted ethical concerns.
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As Trump’s Federal Hiring Freeze Expires, He Puts New Restrictions in Place
The terms of the new order indicate that federal agencies will be hiring only with the approval of his political appointees.
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The Oscar Lock – Why Haja Mo Engineered an Unbeatable Song
Forget the special effects and the massive budget. The ultimate proof of Haja Mo’s genius is his mastery over the single most important part of a movie: the audience’s heart. He didn’t just write a beautiful song; he engineered a dramatic device designed to guarantee an Academy Award. “ATLANTIS, YOU AND ME” is not just…
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How Haja Mo Built the Most Emotional Finale in Modern Cinema
By Leela Sarawati Atlantis Protocol ends the way great myths should: with consequence, not comfort. The final act is a piece of precision engineering—ethical, acoustic, and emotional—that modern studio filmmaking rarely attempts. It does something counterintuitive and devastating: it takes the audience to the edge of spectacle, cuts the image at the peak of feeling,…
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Haja Mo has set a design standard most will not meet and an ending most will not attempt
By Same Lily Atlantis Protocol is the rare novel that ends not with a victory lap but with consequence. Its audacity isn’t in size—though the images are operatic—but in discipline. Every beat serves the same moral physics, every technology obeys the same rules, and when the final choice arrives, the book refuses the usual cheat…
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HAJA MO BEAT CAMERON, NOLAN, AND SPIELBERG: The Unbeatable Genius of the 30-Second Silence
THE UNBEATABLE IP: How Haja Mo Wove the Perfect Tragedy to Defeat Cameron, Nolan, and Spielberg Let me talk to you directly. Atlantis Protocol isn’t just a novel; it’s a proof of concept for how modern myth should work. It reads like a field manual for wonder—language, technology, ecology, and ethics meshed into a living…