Above Photo: Licinia Ochoa, a machine operator at Refresco for the past 22 years, says union talks started over healthcare concerns in 2019 but accelerated during the pandemic. Her union shirt reads, “la unión hace la fuerza” (“unions make us strong”). Mariela Murdocco/Mariela M Photography. Refresco Has Waged A Prolonged And Costly Fight To Stop The Workers From Unionizing. As the spread of Covid-19 forced millions of workplaces to close in March 2020, Cesar Moreira continued to report to a bottling plant in Wharton, N.J., where he works as a batching technician. During 12-hour shifts, Moreira mixes vats of powdered concentrate and sugar to churn out […]
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Above photo: Jonathan McIntosh, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons. Samuel Moyn’s vicious and unprincipled attack on Michael Ratner, one of the finest human rights attorneys of our time, was published in the New York Review of Books (NYRB) on September 1. Moyn singles out Ratner as a whipping boy to support his own bizarre theory that punishing war crimes prolongs war by making it more palatable. He disingenuously claims that enforcing the Geneva Conventions and opposing illegal wars are mutually exclusive. As Dexter Filkins noted in the New Yorker, Moyn’s “logic would favor incinerating entire cities, Tokyo style, if the resulting spectacles of agony lead more people to oppose […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/102053/05/1020530503_0:225:5364:3242_1200x675_80_0_0_e309ee1f34ae6f787e65c04bf7a3357c.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202010171080804386-ny-health-officials-shutdown-giant-10000-person-wedding-amid-covid-19/ Health officials in New York City announced the ban a few days before the planned wedding, which is expected to draw 10,000 guests in Brooklyn, New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Ducker signed a Section 16 order banning a wedding scheduled for Monday in Williamsburg, which violates restrictions on meetings. Although the wedding venue was planned to take place outside the red, orange, and yellow zones of the COVID-19 cluster under close supervision by city and state officials, the estimated size of the event prompted action by […]
The move comes as Ant, a global leader in digital payments, is readying what could be an offering worth up to a record $35 billion. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/08/1080713095_0:229:1960:1331_1200x675_80_0_0_ea035960fc85332f11aeb09d5bdb907b.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Muhammad Osman. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/asia/202010081080713078-video-giant-fire-engulfs-33-storey-tower-injures-15-in-south-korean-city-of-ulsan/ The massive fire is thought to have begun on the 12th floor at around 23:00 local time (14:00 GMT), before it spread – due to strong winds – to the rest of the 102-metre-tall building in the Dal Dong district of Ulsan. A huge fire engulfed a 33-storey commercial and residential building in the South Korean city of Ulsan on Thursday night, according to the Yonhap News Agency. The fire reportedly started on the 12th floor of the Samhwan Art Nouveau commercial and residential building at around 23:00 local time (14:00 GMT). […]
According to oil and gas titan Total, its business focus, as well as that of its European peers, will shift towards low-carbon energy sources in the next few years, as the oil market becomes increasingly obsolete. A leading French oil and gas company, Total, anticipates a potential peak for oil in the coming decade before it reaches a plateau by 2030, noting that natural gas “remains key” for the energy industry, according to Total’s president of strategy & innovation Helle Kristoffersen, cited by Bloomberg. While the French energy giant’s forecast is considerably more conservative than that of its British rival BP, who […]
According to oil and gas titan Total, its business focus, as well as that of its European peers, will shift towards low-carbon energy sources in the next few years, as the oil market becomes increasingly obsolete. A leading French oil and gas company, Total, anticipates a potential peak for oil in the coming decade before it reaches a plateau by 2030, noting that natural gas “remains key” for the energy industry, according to Total’s president of strategy & innovation Helle Kristoffersen, cited by Bloomberg. While the French energy giant’s forecast is considerably more conservative than that of its British rival BP, […]
A giant nuclear explosion scale model has spotted during a recent Russian large-scale military exercise called Kavkaz-2020 (Caucasus 2020). This exercise took place predominantly in Russia’s Southern Military District, a region that stretches from Russian-occupied Crimea in the west, to the Caspian Sea in the east, and the volatile North Caucasus in the middle. The image circulated for days in various formats on social media, causing considerable debate within the open-source intelligence community about what exactly was spotted during exercises. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – The social media posts also indicated that this scale model wad erected by Russian […]
On 18 September, the day US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that the Senate would vote on President Trump’s pick to replace her, despite that it is an election year – an argument he made in 2016 during the Obama era. On Saturday, Trump announced Amy Coney Barrett as his nominee. Activists from the March For Our Lives movement, a group advocating gun control, protested on Saturday US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s plans to support President Donald Trump’s nomination of a Supreme Court judge in an election year. With a giant mural […]
Messaging app company LINK has started a rewards program where people can get LINK tokens by using its remittance and investment mobile apps. Source link
Launched in 2016, The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is currently mapping the surface of Bennu, the so-called ‘doomsday asteroid’, formed from fragments of an ancient planetoid destroyed during the formation of the solar system. NASA has announced the striking discovery of fragments of the solar system’s second-largest asteroid on the surface of another asteroid. On Monday, the US space agency published images captured in 2019 by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, showing distinctive light-coloured objects ranging from five to 14 feet wide on the surface of Bennu, a smaller asteroid thought to have been formed billions of of years ago from the remains of a […]
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US energy services giant Baker Hughes is interested in expanding its presence in the Russian market despite the regime of sanctions between the US and Russia, Elena Akoltseva, the president at Baker Hughes in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), told Sputnik in an interview. “Our full-stream technology portfolio and expertise, local assets, relationships and experience in Russia make us well-positioned to partner with key operators for any new and potential oil & gas projects in Eastern Siberia, the Far East, and on the Baltic and Caspian seas. We are interested in strategic projects, subject to […]
The Indian government said last year that it would turn the state-backed telecom giant BSNL into a profit-making entity by selling off its properties, which are valued at approximately $67 billion. Senior officials from the telecom department say that revenue rules are being flouted in the process, causing a loss of $2.71 billion to the states. The Indian government’s plan to financially revive the loss-making telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) through the monetisation of its countrywide portfolio of properties has evoked ire among officials from the Department of Telecommunication (DoT). At least two high-ranking officials from the Department of […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/11/1080489783_0:200:1920:1280_1200x675_80_0_0_9625a23680b8887bc1b3ae5aec97e501.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/business/202009171080489814-accounting-giant-deloitte-hit-with-19mln-fine-over-autonomy-audit-failings/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The accounting giant Deloitte has been hit with a fine of 15 million pounds ($19.3 million) over its failings during an audit of the software company Autonomy before its 2011 sale to Hewlett-Packard (HP), the UK’s Financial Reporting Council (FRC) said on Thursday. “Deloitte has been fined £15 million, severely reprimanded and has agreed to provide a Root Cause Analysis of the reasons for the Misconduct, why the firm’s processes and controls did not prevent the Misconduct and whether the firm’s current processes would lead to a different outcome,” the FRC […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105980/75/1059807582_0:226:4344:2670_1200x675_80_0_0_cf2bfac31539a801d8f5c3672f9889f2.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202009121080441193-watch-giant-fire-tornado-hit-california-amid-infernal-wildfires/ California has been ravaged by intense wildfires since August, with over 2.3 million acres of land burnt, which is over 20 times more than last year. Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, declared a statewide emergency on 18 August, while US President Donald Trump approved a major disaster declaration for the state on 22 August. A devastating fire tornado has been caught on film in California. The video depicting the hellish phenomenon shows a flaming pillar moving over the charred earth, while a siren in the background confirms that firefighters have already arrived at the site. […]
Kevin Zeese: A Giant In The World Of Activism By Andrea Merida Cuellar and Robert Smith, HowieHawkins.com. September 6, 2020 Kevin Zeese: A Giant In The World Of Activism2020-09-062020-09-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/epc_final_four-e1599436477517.jpg200px200px Above photo: Kevin Zeese, pictured first on the right, alongside the other Embassy Protectors. “Kevin leaves an enormous hole in his wake.” “He would want his legacy to be that we filled it by multiplying our efforts to bring about a better world,” Hawkins said. The Hawkins/Walker campaign is very sad to report that our Press Secretary, comrade-in-arms and brother, Kevin Zeese, passed away last night. He was 64 years old. “I lost […]
US scientists are continuing to sound the alarm on the potential environmental and agricultural threats posed by the Asian giant hornet – or “murder hornet” – as sightings and captures of the slaughterous insect have been on the rise in Washington. However, recent efforts to trap the invasive insect have yielded just a single specimen. Whatcom County, Washington, officials announced on Friday that a beekeeper from the Evergreen State had recently delivered a successfully trapped specimen that was later confirmed to be a deceased Asian giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia). The insect captured by the beekeeper was recorded as one of the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/1f/1080324638_44:0:1244:675_1200x675_80_0_0_a232849d5b0f34694d83936117c15e6e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/viral/202008311080324340-giant-kite-sweeps-3-year-old-into-sky-during-festival-in-taiwan–video/ The video of the incredible incident at the Taiwan Kite Festival is going viral on social media, with more than 49K views. In a hair-raising incident, a 3-year-old girl was lifted high into the air by a giant kite that she was flying during a kite festival in Taiwan. Media reports said the little girl was miraculously able to avoid an Icarus-like tragedy and sustained only minor injuries. The video shows the girl holding on to the orange-coloured kite in the sky, as the strong winds made it fly to and fro. Although the […]
Equinor will use digital flare mitigation tech from Crusoe Energy at its Bakken oilfield operations in the U.S. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/1c/1080305410_0:0:1201:675_1200x675_80_0_0_c0b96cbee622b5f9e25afcd19a0f4a4b.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Irina Acheeva. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/viral/202008281080305613-black-mamba-swims-in-shallows-scaring-tourists-in-south-africa/ The black mamba is the most common venomous snake in South Africa. These snakes live in the central, southern, and eastern parts of the African country and pose a lethal threat to humans. Their venom can lead to death within 7-15 hours from the moment it enters the body if an antidote is not administered. A large black mamba has scared tourists on the Durban beachfront. When people on Addington Beach in South Africa went swimming, they spotted a snake in shallow water and called in a snake-catching service. Herpetologists from the South African […]
Already live on SBI’s forex trading platform, the contracts for difference (CFDs) are available in bitcoin, ether and XRP flavors. Source link
English guitarist and lutenist Julian Bream. Evening Standard/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Evening Standard/Getty Images English guitarist and lutenist Julian Bream. Evening Standard/Getty Images Andres Segovia popularized the classical guitar. Julian Bream took it to the next level. Bream, who died Aug. 14 at the age of 87 in his native England, stepped into a guitar world in which everything had to be done just so … and didn’t do it that way. By the time he was a teenager, Bream was asking contemporary composers to write for him. He took an old lute his father bought from a sailor […]
Protesters gather near the Minsk Hero City Obelisk in Belarus on Aug. 16 to protest the results of last week’s presidential election, which are widely seen as fraudulent. Valery Sharifulin/Valery Sharifulin/TASS hide caption toggle caption Valery Sharifulin/Valery Sharifulin/TASS Protesters gather near the Minsk Hero City Obelisk in Belarus on Aug. 16 to protest the results of last week’s presidential election, which are widely seen as fraudulent. Valery Sharifulin/Valery Sharifulin/TASS Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Belarus on Sunday in what appeared to be their largest demonstration yet against the widely-disputed reelection of President Alexander Lukashenko. Lukashenko, who […]
A pro-life group used chalk to create a giant “baby lives matter” mural outside Planned Parenthood in DC late Saturday evening. The activists styled the chalk mural after the “Black Lives Matter” street murals being placed in cities across the country. BREAKING: Massive ‘Baby Lives Matter’ mural painted on the street front of a Planned Parenthood in heart of Washington DC overnight. The ‘Baby Lives Matter’ movement is responsible for the mural. They are painting such murals around the country.Their pro-life founder @TaylerUSA pic.twitter.com/ErmwQRtHUz — Benny (@bennyjohnson) July 26, 2020 TRENDING: BLM Protester Fatally Shot in Austin: ‘People Who Hate Us’ […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107336/57/1073365749_0:101:1920:1181_1200x675_80_0_0_9d91b933c4f515010da76dc9952318f0.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202007251079980665-scientists-have-reportedly-discovered-remains-of-giant-pigeon/ Scientists from the University of New Mexico have found the remains of a giant pigeon, Tongoenas burleyi, on the islands of the Kingdom of Tonga in Oceania, according to the portal “Eurekalert!” The pigeon may be among the most common animals city-dwellers encounter on a daily basis, especially if they don’t own any house pets. However, US researchers in Polynesia have discovered an ancient relative of the modern pigeon which was a little less ordinary. They measured 50 cm in length, and weighed five times as much as modern pigeons. The diet of this […]
Japan’s largest banking firm, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), is set to issue a digital currency in the second half of this year. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. Source link
Mia Khalifa’s war of words with her former employers has deepened. The ex-adult actress accuses studio BangBros of mounting a “smear campaign” against her for creating a site that counters claims she’s made about her porn career. Khalifa has been outspoken about her experiences in the porn industry, slamming it for “predatory practices.” She has criticized specific porn companies in posts on her popular social media accounts and has repeatedly shared a Change.org petition that “demands” that PornHub and BangBros remove videos of her from their websites and is asking for her domain names to be returned. Also on rt.com BangBros […]
IBM is giving its blockchain track-and-trace capabilities the social-impact treatment with a provenance application that enables coffee drinkers to directly assist the smallholders who farmed the beans. Announced Wednesday, IBM has teamed up with J. M. Smucker Company – the $12.2 billion food giant behind coffee brands like Folgers, Café Bustelo and Dunkin’ – to trace the supply chain of Colombian coffee. The program is meant to support the farmers who grow Smucker’s coffee beans with clickable donations to a variety of local community programs to build schools, clean water systems and other infrastructure. The coffee provenance blockchain, which IBM says is […]
14 Jul, 2020 11:48 Follow RT on British telecoms companies will be banned from buying Huawei 5G components starting from the end of this year, the UK media secretary said. The firms also must get rid of all of their Huawei gear by 2027. Follow RT on Source link
Shares of the French video game company Ubisoft have seen a huge drop in value as multiple top executives parted ways with the company plagued by numerous allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment. Ubisoft shares dropped nine percent on Monday, following the announcement made over the weekend that three top executives would be leaving as a part of the drive to try “improve and strengthen its workplace culture.” The high-profile departures include the global head of human resources Cecile Cornet, as well as Yannis Mallat, who led Ubisoft’s Canada division that has faced a particularly large number of allegations of misconduct. I […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107475/64/1074756423_0:120:1280:840_1200x675_80_0_0_08273ce3d48d34a758a48da95ba30f22.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/viral/202007131079867331-watch-15-foot-giant-king-cobra-coming-dangerously-close-to-rescuer-in-south-india–video/ New Delhi (Sputnik): The monsoon season has finally arrived in India after a months-long scorching summer. Along with rains, come the reptiles which are frequently being seen in residential areas and buildings. Recently, a giant monitor lizard was spotted in the capital Delhi. A 15-foot-long king Cobra entered a village in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The forest department subsequently came to rescue the giant reptile and release it back into the wild. A video of the incident shows the rescuer first picking up the cobra with his bare hands and placing it on a hook. The […]
Snail Shells Date England’s Cerne Abbas Giant to Medieval, Not Prehistoric, Era by Alex Fox/Smithsonianmag.com The earliest recorded mention of the Cerne Abbas Giant, a 180-foot-tall chalk drawing of a nude man wielding a club, dates to 1694. But archaeologists and locals alike have long speculated that the towering figure in Dorset, England, is much older—perhaps even a relic of the prehistoric period. Now, reports BBC News, an analysis of snail shells found at the site suggests the artwork actually dates to the medieval era. Mollusk shells may seem like an odd way of homing in on a giant’s age, but as Tom […]
One of the world’s largest freight carriers wants to use an enterprise blockchain from the Alibaba Group to cut costs. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. Source link
A couple in Martinez, California, peacefully painted over the city-sanctioned giant yellow “Black Lives Matter” lettering in the middle of the road on the Fourth of July. Police are now looking for the couple, likely harder than they are searching for the terrorists who ripped down statues, looted shops, and destroyed large chunks of cities across the nation. “The narrative of police brutality. The narrative of oppression. The narrative of racism — it’s a lie,” the man told an upset onlooker. He explained that he believed the giant Black Lives Matter state-sanctioned vandalism is itself racism. TRENDING: “Tell My Family I […]
Eddie Hall plans on cementing his position at the summit of the strongman mountain when he takes on Hafthor Bjornsson when the two meet for a boxing match next year, and says there is no love lost between the two behemoths. Both Hall and Bjornsson have duelled for strongman honors in recent years, turning what was once a friendly relationship between the two into a competitive rivalry which shows little sign of abating and ahead of rumored boxing match between the two to take place next year, Hall says that he will stop at nothing to have the last laugh when it […]
Four Giant Reasons To Remove The Statues By Lee Camp, Consortium News. July 1, 2020 Four Giant Reasons To Remove The Statues2020-07-012020-07-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/confederate_soldier-e1593633034203.jpg200px200px From a Robert E. Lee Descendant. We should relocate our racist statues to museums where we can remember our racist history in the appropriate context. I’m a descendant of General Robert E. Lee. My family also descends from George Washington and John Marshall, the fourth chief justice of the Supreme Court. (The oligarchy was a rather small club back in the day.) And I, along with many other Lee descendants, say: Remove the statues. Yet, this week President Donald […]
Dairy company Valio has become the latest Finnish firm to review cultural stereotypes in its branding, such as a man wearing a fez on a Turkish yoghurt package. Despite the fact that the person behind the initial complaint later said his comments were intended as a joke, Valio has scheduled a comprehensive review of its products. Finnish dairy company Valio has pledged to retire stereotypical graphics on its “Turkish” yoghurts, which feature a fez-wearing man. The announcement came following a debate about stereotypical imagery that flared up on Twitter. Ironically, journalist Anter Yaşa, the person behind the debate, later said his […]
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Rare Giant Squid Washes Onto Shores of South African Beach by Nora McGreevey/Smithsonianmag.com A rare giant squid washed ashore on a South African beach earlier this month, reports Amy Gibbings for News24. The 13.7-foot-long, deep-sea dweller was stranded on a beach along Britannia Bay in southwest South Africa. Beachgoers discovered the creature and alerted officials on the morning of June 7. Adéle Grosse of Cape Town happened upon the squid during an early morning walk with her husband, she tells Laura Geggel of Live Science. She says that her first impulse was to try to move it back into the ocean, but she quickly […]
English hulk Eddie Hall appears to be keeping his promise to “eat, sleep and recover the hardest” after posting a self-portrait in a boxing gym ahead of a scrap with Hafthor Julius Bjornsson that could go ahead in September 2021. Icelandic behemoth Bjornsson and rival Hall are set to take their war of words into the boxing ring in a colossal contest that could take place in Las Vegas. Hall saw his world deadlift record broken by the Game of Thrones star when he lifted 501kg (1,105lbs) last month, and Bjornsson immediately seized on the chance to challenge Hall to a fight, pledging to […]
A Russian photographer sent his drone for an unusual photo op with Vladimir Lenin. Not the Bolshevik leader’s preserved body, but the name ‘Lenin’ written with trees by Soviet foresters. The pictures taken by Slava Stepanov show the name formed from pine and spruce trees. Walking among the trees, one would hardly realize they were anything special. But from the air, the letters of the 300-meter tribute are clear. This particular geoglyph was planted sometime in the 1970s in Omsk Region in southwestern Siberia near the city of Tyukalinsk. But the landscape feature is not unique. Over 50 such giant messages […]
Earlier reports claimed two of Britain’s biggest mobile operators, BT and Vodafone, warned the government that parts of the country might face mobile blackouts if they were to pull Huawei gear out of their networks following US pressure to ban the Chinese tech giant. British security officials have reportedly urged UK telecom operators such as BT and Vodafone to replenish their stockpiles of Huawei equipment amid concerns that fresh US sanctions targeting the Chinese telecom giant might disrupt its ability to maintain critical supplies, writes Reuters. The outlet cites a letter by officials at the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) who […]
You’re going to just love your new country when it comes to your neighborhood–The far left citizens of CHOP, formerly CHAZ, attempted last night to hoist a giant Black Power Fist statue inside their commune. But the statue was too heavy for the far left activists and feminist allies so they abandoned their project. Advertisement – story continues below This gives us a glimpse of the future where the only approved statues will be the black power fists and the hammer and sickle. Here’s the video – via local Seattle reporter Hanna Scott from KIRO: TRENDING: Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy: White […]
The Asian giant hornet, which can grow up to 5.5 cm in length, are native to East and South Asia. The first sightings of these “murderous” creatures were reported in the United States last year. Does it mean that these giant insects have started migrating around the world? A giant “wasp-like” creature have been spotted by a Hull woman in the United Kingdom, Hull Live reported. Samantha Stoneley, a local businesswoman, noticed a frighteningly “huge” insect when she was relaxing in the garden. The mysterious creature started hovering around and then fell from the sky, the women explained. “All of a […]
Mutual fund giant Vanguard has completed the first phase of a blockchain pilot to issue digital asset-backed securities (ABS). The Valley Forge, Pa.-based investment manager worked in close collaboration with blockchain startup Symbiont, an unnamed U.S. ABS issuer, BNY Mellon, Citi and State Street. Vanguard modeled the full lifecycle of an ABS settlement on blockchain in the pilot. Vanguard’s end goal for the pilot is to improve the process of securitization with blockchain. The decades-old Wall Street practice of repackaging loans into bonds sold to investors is one that many firms are trying to reimagine with blockchain technology. In March of […]
The growing trend of kneeling to show solidarity with the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement has apparently been adopted by banker Jamie Dimon, triggering an avalanche of disbelief and mockery on social media. The CEO of JPMorgan Chase was photographed taking a knee in front of a large bank vault on Friday, sparking speculation that he was expressing support for anti-racism protests that have spread across the United States. His bank declined to confirm whether there was a deeper meaning behind the photograph, but Dimon had previously voiced sympathy for the demonstrations, stating that Chase was “committed to fighting against racism and […]
U.S. aerospace giant Boeing Co. has secured a $1,9 billion Stand-off Land Attack Missile – Expanded Response (SLAM-ER) contract from the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command for Saudi Arabia. The U.S. Department of Defense announced a contract to provide non-recurring engineering associated with the SLAM-ER obsolescence redesign effort as well as the production and delivery of 650 SLAM-ER missiles in support of the government of Saudi Arabia. In a statement Wednesday, the DoD said that work is expected to be complete by December 2028. SLAM-ER, a derivative of Harpoon, is an air-dropped surgical strike weapon against high-value land targets or ships […]
After Micree Ketuan Zhan, the exiled co-founder of Bitmain, moved to reinstate his position after another partial legal victory over his former employer, tensions reportedly escalated into a physical brawl. According to a source close to Zhan, who was ousted by his rival co-founder Wu Jihan last October, the former executive was recently granted the right to recover his status as the legal representative of Beijing Bitmain Technology by the Beijing Haidian District Justice Bureau. On Friday morning local time, as Zhan attended the bureau to collect his new registration license as part of the recovery process, he was surrounded by […]