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  • Senate Finance Committee chair faces call to resign over wife's major stock holdings

    03/18/2024 5:09:04 PM PDT · by Robwin · 12 replies
    Just the News ^ | Updated: March 18, 2024 | Madeleine Hubbard
    Republicans are demanding Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden step down from his position as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee over his wife's major stock holdings."We are alarmed by reports of your wife's exceptionally large stock holdings, totaling $3 million, in four of the Big Five technology companies that you are tasked with overseeing – Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google," a group of national Republicans, led by New York Young Republican Club President Gavin Wax, wrote to Wyden in a letter obtained by Just the News on ThursdayWyden's latest financial disclosure covers 2022, and it shows that his wife, Nancy...
  • Amazon presses the nuclear button: Tech giants show growing interest in atomic power

    03/18/2024 8:42:47 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 8 replies
    Financial Times ^ | 03/18/2024 | Lee Harris
    Hello from London, where I am, as a recent American transplant, still adjusting to English understatement (it turns out “you might send me that draft soon” was not just a suggestion). I’m very excited to join this team. This week’s controversy over new climate reporting rules in the US shows that the push for cleaner, fairer capitalism is becoming ever more fiercely contested. And while this debate may not always be moral, it is certainly material. I hope to help readers see which way it will tack next. Today, I have a story on two big themes that may be...
  • News Summary-Intelligence Report Friday 3/15/2024 Newsdump Friday Principal Threatened By Knife Wielding Student In France, Prime Minister Says "No New Guns" In New Zealand, Atlanta Democrat Charges Against Trump Intact, Election Interference In Russia

    03/15/2024 8:07:43 PM PDT · by Nextrush · 4 replies
    Nextrush Free ^ | 3/15/2024 | Nextrush/Self
    A United Airlines Boeing 737-800 flight landing safety...missing external panel... The US Navy announcing an 18-month delay in delivery of the "USS Enterprise" aircraft carrier... "I could not be the man I am and abandon the fight at this point" Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowing to stay on even as his Liberal Party trails badly... In France a 15-year-old student taken into custody after threatening the principal of his middle school with a knife... Five wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's... North Korean ruler Kim Jong-Un overseeing air warfare drills today urging more... "no new guns" Those...
  • Suburban mom ran ‘complex’ crime ring that stole nearly $8M in makeup across US for online resale: authorities

    03/12/2024 3:48:24 PM PDT · by T Ruth · 35 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 12, 2024 | Isabel Keane
    A California mom-of-three has been accused of masterminding an organized crime ring that stole nearly $8 million worth of makeup from stores like Ulta, T.J. Maxx and Walgreens — and then re-sold it online to churn a profit. Michelle Mack, 53, ran the sprawling enterprise from her $2.75 million, 4,500-square-foot mansion in the San Diego foothills, according to authorities. Mack allegedly paid as many as 12 women to steal from stores across the country, stockpiling the hot goods and then selling them on her Amazon storefront at a fraction of the retail price, according to authorities, NBC San Diego reported....
  • IATSE and Teamsters Warn of Another Hollywood Strike at Massive Rally: ‘Put Your Helmets On’

    03/03/2024 3:05:40 PM PST · by dynachrome · 21 replies
    Variety ^ | 3-3-24 | Katcy Stephan, Gene Maddaus, Carolyn Giardina
    Hollywood union leaders warned of the possibility of another strike this summer if the studios cannot reach a deal before crew contracts expire on July 31. Speaking to a rally of more than 2,000 crew members on Sunday at Woodley Park in Encino, Sean O’Brien, the president of the International Brotherhood of the Teamsters, said the unions should commit to withhold their labor — and not grant an extension — if a deal is not agreed by the deadline. “We are not afraid to strike,” O’Brien said. “If these greedy corporations — whether it’s Amazon, Netflix, Sony… Disney — if...
  • A MONSTROUS REPTILE RUMORED TO BE LARGEST OF ITS KIND ON EARTH HAS BEEN DISCOVERED IN THE AMAZON RAINFOREST

    02/27/2024 1:05:48 PM PST · by Red Badger · 46 replies
    The Debrief ^ | FEBRUARY 26, 2024 | MICAH HANKS
    A massive new species of anaconda that could potentially be the largest currently in existence has been uncovered in the Amazon rainforests of Ecuador, according to newly published findings that expand our understanding of these massive snakes and their habitat. The discovery was made during fieldwork by a team of researchers with the University of Queensland, who traveled to the region in search of an undocumented variety of northern green anaconda spoken of by its indigenous residents. According to accounts shared by the Waorani people of the Ecuadorian Amazon, stories of a variety of large anacondas said to exist in...
  • Unbelievable video shows Amazon delivery truck being split in HALF by train in destructive accident that the driver somehow survived

    02/21/2024 2:12:00 PM PST · by artichokegrower · 18 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | February 21, 2024 | Emma Richter
    This is the unbelievable moment an Amazon delivery truck was sliced in half by a train as the driver miraculously survived the destructive accident.
  • Who’s behind these mysterious deliveries? Woodside man showered with products he didn’t order

    02/19/2024 8:32:28 AM PST · by ShadowAce · 40 replies
    Mercury News ^ | 7 February 2024 | Lisa M. Krieger
    Daniel Williams, come pick up your junk.For more than six months, a parade of unsolicited Amazon packages — large and small, cheap and expensive, free or fraudulently billed — have arrived at John DeFiore’s rural Woodside home, addressed to a mysterious Mr. Williams.“It’s like the Twilight Zone,” said DeFiore, 61, an electrical engineer who is meticulous about his online shopping habits and credit card use.“We don’t want any of this stuff,” he said. “It’s not ours. We have everything we need.”Online shopping offers near-infinite choice and convenience. But it has also created a global gathering place for digital crooks, fraudsters...
  • 19-Year-Old Son of Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Found Dead at UC Berkeley Dorm

    02/18/2024 7:34:50 AM PST · by Red Badger · 82 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | Feb. 18, 2024 8:45 am | Staff
    The 19-year-old son of former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki was found deceased at the University of California, Berkeley, on Tuesday. His grandmother, Esther Wojcicki, confirmed the devastating news in a Facebook post. The student, identified as Marco Troper, was discovered unresponsive in his dorm at the Clark Kerr Campus, a student housing complex, around 4:23 p.m. local time. Despite immediate life-saving attempts by the Berkeley Fire Department, Troper was pronounced dead at the scene. The University of California Police Department (UCPD) stated that there were no signs of foul play discovered, according to the New York Post. The heartbroken grandmother...
  • Microsoft, Google, Amazon and tech peers sign pact to combat election-related misinformation

    02/18/2024 5:52:45 AM PST · by devane617 · 86 replies
    CNBC ^ | 02/18/2024
    A group of 20 leading tech companies on Friday announced a joint commitment to combat AI misinformation in this year’s elections. The industry is specifically targeting deepfakes, which can use deceptive audio, video and images to mimic key stakeholders in democratic elections or to provide false voting information. Microsoft , Meta , Google , Amazon , IBM , Adobe and chip designer Arm all signed the accord. Artificial intelligence startups OpenAI, Anthropic and Stability AI also joined the group, alongside social media companies such as Snap , TikTok and X. Tech platforms are preparing for a huge year of elections...
  • The great train heists of the 21st Century: Thieves armed with bolt cutters and crowbars are clambering aboard lumbering freight locomotives laden with Amazon boxes and staging brazen raids that shame Los Angeles

    02/10/2024 1:02:48 PM PST · by libh8er · 49 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 2.10.2024 | Will Potter
    California cops have been left scrambling as gangs of thieves armed with bolt cutters and crowbars are clambering aboard mile-long trundling freight trains to loot expensive electronic goods, high-end clothing and jewelry. Sometimes the robbers strike while the lumbering locomotives are still moving, while others brazenly trigger the emergency brakes so that their accomplices can hack their way into the metal containers. LA is the undisputed 'capital of cargo theft' with trains ferrying goods from the major ports, but the spate of train thefts have almost doubled across the nation since 2019. The issue of mass cargo theft shot into...
  • UPDATE: We Now Know Which Book the Biden Admin Tried to Get Amazon to Ban

    02/06/2024 4:57:21 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 45 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 02/06/2024 | Matt Margolis
    Update: The Daily Signal's Tyler O'Neil has identified the book the Biden administration wanted to ban as "Anyone Who Tells You Vaccines Are Safe and Effective Is Lying," by Dr. Vernon Coleman. The book's description, which is currently available on Amazon, reads: "The facts about vaccination - so that you can make up your own mind. Dr Vernon Coleman MB ChB DSc FRSA has been researching and writing about vaccines for 50 years. He has lectured doctors and nurses on the subject. He used to debate vaccination on TV and radio but won every public debate and these days vaccine...
  • Jim Jordan debuts 'Amazon Files' showcasing federal censorship efforts against books

    02/06/2024 11:55:01 AM PST · by Twotone · 8 replies
    Just the News ^ | February 5, 2024 | Ben Whedon
    The House Judiciary Committee and the Weaponization subpanel on Monday revealed internal documents secured via the subpoena of Amazon, highlighting the Biden administration's efforts to address "propaganda" and "misinformation" in books the online retailer sold. Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan outlined the effort in an X thread reminiscent of the "Twitter Files" reports that addressed federal involvement with that platform. Kicking off the episode, Jordan asserted, was a 2021 email from a White House official seeking an opportunity to discuss "the high levels of propaganda and misinformation and disinformation of [sic] Amazon?" "Why was the Biden White House so upset with...
  • THE AMAZON FILES: New Docs Expose Amazon Caving to Biden Admin Pressure to Censor Books

    02/06/2024 7:02:25 AM PST · by JV3MRC · 10 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | 2/6/2024 | Joseph Vazquez
    Explosive new evidence adds another terrifying chapter to the incestuous collusion story between President Joe Biden’s administration and Big Tech to censor free speech. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan unleashed a trove of subpoenaed documents on X (formerly Twitter) exposing the Biden admin pressuring leftist tech giant Amazon to censor books that went against government narratives. Amazon — already notorious for how it nuked free speech platform Parler in 2021 from Amazon Web Services for allowing wrongthink to remain uncensored — was ironically disturbed by the White House pressure. “Is the [Biden] Admin asking us to remove books,” asked...
  • Biden administration pressured Amazon to censure books that questioned COVID vaccines

    02/05/2024 5:32:36 PM PST · by Ciaphas Cain · 22 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | February 5, 2024 | Susan Ferrechio
    Senior Biden administration aides summoned Amazon officials to the White House during the height of the pandemic to discuss “propaganda and misinformation” in books for sale on the retail giant’s website that questioned the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines. White House officials “spent a week berating Amazon” in March 2021 over books related to “vaccine misinformation” and asked what steps company officials could take “to reduce the visibility of these titles,” according to Amazon emails released Monday by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican. The Amazon pressure campaign overseen by Andy Slavitt, who was Mr. Biden’s senior...
  • Biden Regulators Say They’re ‘Pleased’ By Merger Block That Gutted US Company

    02/02/2024 6:10:20 AM PST · by Red Badger · 13 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | February 01, 2024 8:38 PM ET | JARED STOKES - CONTRIBUTOR
    Following a recent announcement that Amazon and iRobot have terminated their $1.4 billion merger agreement, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Associate Director for Merger Analysis Nathan Soderstrom released a statement expressing the Biden regulators’ pleasure at the dissolution. “We are pleased that Amazon and iRobot have abandoned their proposed transaction…The Commission’s investigation revealed significant concerns about the transaction’s potential competitive effects,” Soderstrom said in the statement. U.S. federal lawmakers, including Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, previously called on the FTC to block the merger in a joint letter. “iRobot is a powerful market incumbent, and Amazon, given its vast resources, history...
  • This EV startup, once valued at $13b, is on the verge of total collapse

    02/01/2024 5:57:47 AM PST · by Red Badger · 16 replies
    Electrek ^ | | Jan 31 2024 - 8:06 am PT | Jennifer Mossalgue
    Once an EV darling thought to revolutionize EV production with its concept of micro-factories that crank out delivery vans for the likes of Uber and UPS, UK startup Arrival is in a desperate search for funding after being delisted from Nasdaq this week. Nasdaq suspended trading of Arrival shares this week, followed by a formal delisting, Reuters reports. The action is the result of Arrival being late in posting financial results and failing to file a remediation plan and hold an annual shareholder meeting. After announcing it was slashing its workforce by 50% last year, Arrival said it had received...
  • The U.S. Is A Lawless Society Where The Criminals Get To Go Free But Underwear And Socks Are Locked Up

    01/28/2024 4:54:06 AM PST · by george76 · 39 replies
    Economic Collapse Blog ^ | January 26, 2024 | Michael Snyder
    We live in an environment of complete and utter lawlessness. When predators boldly roam the streets without fear but good people are literally afraid to leave their own homes, that is clearly a sign that our societal collapse has reached a very advanced stage. Even in the rare instances when they are actually caught and convicted, our system will still often allow violent criminals to go free. For example, a woman in California that was convicted of stabbing her boyfriend more than 100 times was given a sentence that didn’t include even a single day in prison… The family of...
  • ChatGPT violated European privacy laws, Italy tells OpenAI

    01/30/2024 2:27:40 PM PST · by Jyotishi · 3 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Associated Press
    ITALY -- Italian regulators said they told OpenAI that its ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot has violated European Union’s stringent data privacy rules. The country’s data protection authority, known as Garante, said on Monday that it notified San Francisco-based OpenAI of breaches of the EU rules, known as General Data Protection Regulation. The watchdog started investigating ChatGPT last year, when it temporarily banned within Italy the chatbot that can produce text, images and sound in response to users’ questions. Based on the results of its “fact-finding activity,” the watchdog said it “concluded that the available evidence pointed to the existence of...
  • US Company Forced To Lay Off Hundreds After Regulators Signal Plans To Block Merger

    01/30/2024 6:19:49 AM PST · by Red Badger · 51 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | January 29, 2024 4:33 PM ET | Jason Cohen, Daily Caller News Foundation
    Technology company iRobot is undergoing major layoffs after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and European regulators opposed its acquisition by Amazon on Monday, multiple outlets reported. Amazon had planned to acquire iRobot, which is most known for making robot vacuums, but the deal could not go through because of regulatory hurdles, according to a press release announcing the termination. iRobot immediately disclosed impending layoffs affecting about 350 employees, constituting 31% of its total workforce, after the termination announcement. The companies primarily attributed the dissolution of the deal to the European Union (EU), stating in the press release that “Amazon’s proposed...