Tesla is voluntarily recalling nearly 4,000 Cybertrucks due to a problem with the accelerator pedal while Elon Musk recently dropped down the list of the world’s richest people.
The following piece by Harold Meyerson appeared in The American Prospect. For left-of-center policy wonks, this is shaping up as a banner week. Here in Washington, the journal Democracy is holding a “Middle-Out Economics” conference, featuring a host of progressive economists, Biden administration appointees, union think-tankers, and political consultants who grapple with the conundrum of how to… Source
The world’s worst dictatorship, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is once again giving the good housekeeping seal of approval to Elon Musk and his Tesla, as the billionaire simultaneously panders to the CCP in China and preaches freedom at home.
In 2019, the University of Maine set three Guinness World Records for 3D printing. They had the world's largest 3D printer, the largest solid 3D printed object, and the largest 3D printed boat. The 5000-pound boat was printed in 72 hours. — Read the rest
Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir smashed the women's-only world record to
Brazil, Germany, Spain and South Africa sign motion for fairer tax system to deliver £250bn a year extra to fight poverty and climate crisis‘Why we need a global tax on billionaires’The world’s 3,000 billionaires should pay a minimum 2% tax on their fast-growing wealth to raise £250bn a year for the global fight against poverty, inequality and global heating, ministers from four leading economies have suggested.In a sign of growing international support for a levy on the super-rich, Brazil,...
Pair also join two other siblings on board, further strengthening family’s control of French luxury goods companyTwo sons of the world’s richest man, Bernard Arnault, have joined the board of LVMH after a shareholder vote, further cementing the family’s control of the French luxury goods company.The pair joined their elder siblings on the board of directors of the company, which houses brands such as Dior and Louis Vuitton, meaning four of Bernard Arnault’s five children now sit on the board....
The CEO of Tesla Inc, Elon Musk, has moved ahead of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to claim the title of the world's third-richest billionaire, following a resurgence in Tesla's stock value. read more
The Meta CEO is now the world’s third richest person.
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) It pretends to be a democracy and a republic, but it actually represents only the richest .1% of the richest 1% — the richest hundred-thousandth — of Americans, and this has been empirically (i.e., scientifically) proven by all of the scientific analyses of the truth or falsehood of that cardinal […]
Party time, excellent! The classic comedy movie Wayne's World is a classic, and you'll struggle to find amore joyous send up of '80s and '90s culture. Amid the many gifts the film offers, one you mightn't be aware of is that it's considered responsible for popularising the classic "That's what she said" refrain. Continue reading Wayne’s World is why we say “That’s what she said”
Today is the anniversary of both the birth and death of a man considered by many to be the greatest English writer and the greatest dramatist of all time: William Shakespeare.