Meet Dark Money’s Secret $68 Million Donor By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: August 14, 2018 ~ In 2010 we broke the news that a secretive nonprofit called Donors Capital Fund (with the fingerprints of billionaire Charles Koch all over it) had forked over $17,778,600 to fund a widely distributed race-baiting film in the weeks… Read More
A GoFundMe launched by the “Friends Of Special Agent Peter Strzok” has raised over $250,000 from over 6,000 people in less than 24 hours, after the fired FBI agent tweeted a link to the campaign yesterday. The campaign, which originally sought to raise $150,000 has now raised its goal to $350,000 – and at this rate,… Read More
Authored by Jake Johnson via Common Dreams, During a closed-door and off-the-record meeting last week, top Facebook executive Campbell Brown reportedly warned news publishers that refusal to cooperate with the tech behemoth’s efforts to “revitalize journalism” will leave media outlets dying “like in a hospice.” Reported first by The Australian under a headline which read “Work With Facebook or… Read More
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Miles Franklin sponsored this article by Gary Christenson. The opinions are his. You have a headache. Treat with Advil. Well… maybe. The headache is the symptom. The cause might be tight neck muscles, brain tumor or something else. Advil relieves pain and diminishes inflammation, but it won’t fix a brain tumor and will do little… Read More
With Tesla scrambling to produce as many Model 3s as possible to meet Wall Street expectations, it is no surprise that the company has recently been plagued with anecdotal reports of shoddy workmanship and quality control issues. And what just happened over the weekend to the (formerly) delighted owner of a brand new Model 3… Read More
SOUTH African mining production increased 2.8% in June, representing the first time in four months annual production has improved year-on-year, said Fin24 citing data published by Statistics South Africa. The largest contributor to the increase was platinum group metals (PGM) production which was 28.2% stronger whilst gold production fell 19.2% in the month. From a… Read More
While many investors believe the gold and silver price will crash during the next market meltdown, I see a much different outcome. Yes, it is true that the metals may sell off initially in the beginning, but I believe gold and silver will disconnect from the broader markets and move up much higher. The reason…… Read More
Patriotism Has Been Turned Against Patriots Paul Craig Roberts To understand how screwed-up America is, consider that patriotism is now associated with the suppression of dissent. Rich football team owners, who know nothing of the hard lives of most Americans, and the police, who routinely shoot down black people in the streets and in their… Read More
CAPE TOWN — SA’s ruling party is seemingly obsessed with the socialist genie in a bottle which they are convinced can be coaxed out by rubbing it with any number of redistributive policies that have very little to do with pragmatic economic reality. So says Marius Oosthuizen, helmsman at the Future of Business SA Project… Read More
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JOHANNESBURG — The total tally for job losses in South Africa’s mining industry is adding up fast as Gold Fields has announced a restructuring of the world’s second largest gold mine, South Deep. The company expects to cut 1 560 jobs in a restructuring drive – this comes just weeks after Implats announced a plan… Read More
Italian firefighters said a number of cars may have fallen after a section of a raised section of the A10 motorway fell in Genoa and Italy’s ambulance service is reported as saying ‘dozens’ may have been killed. A fire service spokesperson told AFP that the bridge had mostly fallen on rail tracks 100m below and… Read More
The “manic Monday” turmoil that rocked global markets at the start of the week, eased during Asian hours on Tuesday and followed through in the European session sending global markets higher as most European stocks tracked gains across most Asian equities as global markets steadied. The catalyst: after its latest furious plunge, the Turkish lira… Read More
JOHANNESBURG — Naspers’ shareholders will be watching this planned IPO carefully as it introduces another South African link to the burgeoning electric car market. What makes it more interesting is that at a time when Elon Musk is having to explain himself over ‘securing funding’ to take Tesla private, China’s NIO is looking the other way… Read More
GOLD Fields CEO, Nick Holland, will ask shareholders to indulge his team for another long haul on South Deep, the in-distress West Rand mine which would neither be sold nor closed in favour of eventually making a return on some R32bn invested since 2006. “If we continue to carry on here and improve some of… Read More
Curro media statement Curro Holdings, the listed independent education provider, has today released its results for the first six months ending 30 June 2018, showing an 18% boost in revenue from R1,051 million to R1,242 million. Curro’s EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) rose 31% from R255 million to R335 million, while headline… Read More
The rapid spread of mobile technology in the developing world — especially in Africa, which has lagged behind most of Asia and Latin America in closing the income gap with the west — has given rise to the theory of “leapfrogging”, says the Financial Times. This is a Biznews Premium article. Please login or sign up… Read More
As the war of words between the US and Turkey escalates, several hours after John Bolton warned Turkey’s ambassador that the U.S. has nothing further to negotiate until detained American pastor Brunson is freed, on Tuesday Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to boycott American electronic products in response to Washington’s economic pressure against Ankara.… Read More
Corrective pressures grip the capital markets today, helped by the easing of the selling pressure on Turkey, but its more a respite than a relief as no new policy initiatives are behind the lira’s upticks. The implication of this is that it is unlikely to last. In fact, the dollar’s low in early Europe a… Read More