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“Deutsche Bank Executive Who Signed Off On Trump Loans Kills Himself At Age 55”
November 27th, 2019Update: Deutsche Bank Executive, 55, Who Signed Off on Controversial Donald Trump Loans Commits Suicide in His Malibu Home — Rosemary Vrablic was introduced to Trump by Jared Kushner. She would go on to facilitate over $300 million in loans to Trump. Thomas Bowers was Rosemary Vrablic’s boss at Deutsche Bank. At this time, there […]
New York: FedEx Receives Cease-and-Desist Order Over Robot Delivery Marketing Stunt
November 27th, 2019Via: Fast Company: The tech industry’s perennial fantasy of replacing delivery workers with cutesy robots hasn’t quite panned out yet, but that didn’t stop FedEx from coming out with its own autonomous delivery machine and plopping one on a busy Manhattan sidewalk last week. The robot’s New York City debut was just a marketing stunt, […]
Hundreds of Banks and Government Sites Burned in Iran Unrest
November 27th, 2019Via: Reuters: Approximately 731 banks and 140 government sites were torched in recent unrest in Iran, Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said in remarks published by the official IRNA news agency on Wednesday. More than 50 bases used by security forces were attacked and approximately 70 gas stations were also burned, he said, without specifying […]
Ford Can Only Produce a Maximum of 50,000 Mustang Mach E Electric Vehicles in First Year Due to Battery Constraints
November 27th, 2019Via: SlashGear: Battery constraints will limit the number of Mustang Mach-E electric SUVs in Ford’s first year of production, the automaker has confirmed. … Joe Hinrichs, Ford President of Automotive, confirmed that the first year of production would top out at around 50,000 of the SUVs. That’ll be shared globally around all of the markets […]
Ford Challenged Tesla to an ‘Apples to Apples’ Tug-of-War Between Pickup Trucks – Musk Says ‘Bring It On’
November 26th, 2019Update: Ford Chickens Out Via: Electrek: Ford now says that it is not participating in the Tesla Cybertruck vs. F-150 tug-of-war rematch as it calls the first one “absurd.” As we reported earlier today, Tesla CEO Elon Musk agreed to redo the Cybertruck vs. Ford F-150 tug-of-war challenge after claims the first one wasn’t fair. […]
Was Bolivian Coup About Lithium?
November 26th, 2019Via: Counterpunch: Over the course of the past few years, Bolivia has struggled to raise investment to develop the lithium reserves in a way that brings the wealth back into the country for its people. Morales’ Vice President Álvaro García Linera had said that lithium is the “fuel that will feed the world.” Bolivia was […]
Prince Andrew Secretly Met Ghislaine Maxwell Inside Buckingham Palace
November 25th, 2019Via: Daily Mail: Prince Andrew secretly met his friend Ghislaine Maxwell at Buckingham Palace in early June – just a fortnight after US prosecutors announced they were reopening their inquiry into the activities of convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, their mutual friend. Ms Maxwell, the daughter of disgraced newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell, has been accused of […]
Thieves Steal Treasures Worth ‘Around’ 1 Billion Euros In German Museum Heist
November 25th, 2019Via: Forbes: About 100 pieces of royal jewelry thought to be worth at least €1,000,000,000 ($1,101,365,000) are missing from one of Europe’s oldest museums after thieves stole them in a Monday morning heist, which one German newspaper billed as “the biggest art theft since World War II.”
Doctors Say WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange ‘Could Die’ in British Jail
November 25th, 2019Via: DW: More than 60 doctors have written an open letter saying that Julian Assange’s health has deteriorated so much that the WikiLeaks founder’s life is in danger inside a British jail. The 48-year-old Australian citizen is currently serving a 50-week sentence in a top-security prison outside London for jumping bail. He is to fight […]
Australia Probes ‘Deeply Disturbing’ Allegations of Chinese Political Interference
November 24th, 2019*pfft* In other (long forgotten) news: New Zealand: National MP Trained by Chinese Spies Via: Reuters: Australia’s domestic spy agency is investigating whether China tried to install an agent in federal parliament in what Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday called “deeply disturbing” allegations. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) said it had launched an […]
