(TMU) — Last week, former football star Joe Montana announced a massive investment in Calvia, a California-based cannabis business. Montana is among an unspecified number of investors who are putting forward a total of $75 million to help grow the already thriving company. Montana says he believes in the healing properties of the plant that it […]
Two sources for the info below:Globe and Mail.And from January 2017- two years ago @ the CBC
(MEE) — The detention of scores of Saudi royals and businessmen in Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton, where some were reportedly tortured, may be one of the most creative and efficient ways of tackling corruption, Morgan Stanley’s James Gorman said on Thursday. Speaking on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Gorman, CEO and chairman of the […]
James Corbett: "Who gets to write the history textbooks? Where do the history teachers learn about history? What documents are allowed into the historical record, and what documents are excluded? These are not merely academic questions, they go right to the heart of the question of history itself."
(FAIR) — There are dozens of reports detailing how Amazon’s shipping policies negatively effects both the environment and workers, but one wouldn’t have any idea either was a concern after listening to NPR’s sexed-up report (Morning Edition, 11/21/18), “Optimized Prime: How AI and Anticipation Power Amazon’s 1-Hour Deliveries.” The report, detailing the “Artificial Intelligence” behind Amazon’s delivery systems, relies entirely on interviews with Amazon flacks. The […]
(MEE) — Home rental company Airbnb has announced it plans to remove listings in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, a move that comes after several years of pressure from Palestinian human rights groups. The US-based company said it currently has about 200 listings in Israeli settlements in the West Bank and made its decision after […]
(ZHE) “Fortress balance sheets?”… “It’s different this time”… “Greatest economy ever.” If all of that is true, then why are the stocks of the most systemically important banks in the world collapsing? And the banking collapse is leading global stocks lower – probably not coincidentally as global central bank balance sheets contract… As The Economic Collapse blog’s […]
(ANTIWAR.COM) — Cash-rich oil exporter Saudi Arabia is always a sure thing for US companies. The recent controversy surrounding journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance and apparent murder, along with rising international tensions, has many companies rethinking that. An upcoming investment conference in Saudi Arabia is losing participants left and right. JP Morgan Chase, Ford, Mastercard, and Blackrock have all […]
We’ve got some bad news: Facebook is trying to kill Anti-Media. Following the social media giant’s failed effort to crack down on “fake news,” Zuckerberg has decided he’s simply going to remove pages altogether, and independent media outlets like us are being hit the hardest. We had already seen our post reach drop to less than one […]
(CD) — Amid warnings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that there’s a closing window to act to prevent a climate catastrophe—and critiques that its report released Monday was far too conservative—critics are calling out ExxonMobil for pledging a $1 million contribution to a campaign for a carbon tax as a sneaky attempt to control the debate on climate action […]
