The leadership transition went into effect on Monday having been finalized in May, with Andy Jassy, formerly head of Amazon’s cloud-computing business, taking over as CEO. Bezos, 57, will remain involved in the company as executive chairman, focusing on new products and “early initiatives,” he told employees earlier this year. …
Read More »Jeff Bezos to step down as Amazon CEO after 27 years
Bezos, named the world’s richest man by Forbes magazine earlier this year, with assets worth some $189 billion, is set to quit his post to free up time for his space-travel venture, Blue Origin. Initially built as an online bookstore back in the 1990s, Amazon is now one of the …
Read More »70 years of cover-ups over UFOs are finally coming to an end. I believe we’re on the verge of a profound breakthrough
It’s often said that when mankind acknowledges that ‘life’ in the universe has been confirmed and an intelligent civilization reaches out to us, that ‘contact’ will be the most profound moment in human history. So, almost everyone is in agreement as to the ramifications of such ‘contact’, but have we …
Read More »Free after 2 years in jail? Bill Cosby sexual assault conviction OVERTURNED by court
Cosby’s conviction was overturned on Wednesday after it was found that an agreement he had made with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being prosecuted. Known for family-friendly television shows like ‘The Cosby Show’ and ‘Fat Albert,’ Cosby was charged in 2015 with drugging and raping Andrea Constand. Cosby has …
Read More »Russian who became millionaire due to banking error sentenced to six years behind bars after spending on property, cars & travel
According to the prosecutors, Roman Yurkov made 220 different transactions on the night of June 1, 2020, after discovering a technical error while taking money out of his bank account at a bookmaker. He later went on to buy four apartments, a new iPhone, a BMW, and a Mercedes, before …
Read More »Engineer warned of ‘major structural damage’ years before Florida condo complex collapsed – media
A consultant hired in 2018 to inspect the Champlain Towers South condominium complex found evidence of “major structural damage” to the concrete slab below the pool deck and “abundant” cracking and crumbling of columns and other structural support in the parking garage, the Times reported. In his report, the engineer, …
Read More »Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22.5 YEARS in prison over murder of George Floyd
Pushing for the harshest possible sentence on Friday afternoon, prosecutor Matthew Frank told the Minneapolis court that this was “not the typical second degree unintentional murder.” Chauvin’s attorney Eric Nelson urged that justice should not be served according to “public opinion.” The court heard victim impact statements from members of …
Read More »George Galloway: In 50 years in the rough & tumble of British politics, I’ve never been in as poisonous a campaign as this one
The lamestream media have descended on our campaign like a herd of locusts. That means we’re winning. Since the Mail on Sunday reported all strategists agree that I am “eating the Labour vote alive,” the horror of the establishment at the possibility of my actually winning the Batley and Spen …
Read More »Five years after the Brexit referendum, we have an imperfect deal from an imperfect PM, but I’m still sure we made the right call
I have to admit that I didn’t think we would win the Brexit referendum. I believed it had come too soon. I had always been convinced that the UK would one day leave the European Union, but I thought it would occur at some point in the 2020s. On the …
Read More »Too little too late: Central banks are about 10 years behind the times with their crypto plans, economist tells RT’s Boom Bust
“What’s interesting about this whole question of efficiency of cryptocurrency is its energy consumption or inefficiency that actually minimizes the amount of units that can be created in the cryptocurrency world,” Tucker told Boom Bust. “And we know that central banks have specialized, especially in the last 15 months, in …
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