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"Oligarchs are oligarching": Inside Rupert Murdoch’s family trust battle

Salon

A Nevada probate commissioner ruled last week against billionaire media scion Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to change his family’s trust in order to guarantee that his eldest son, Lachlan, would have broad control over his massive empire. As the publication put it: “If Mr. Murdoch fails to lock in Lachlan’s leadership of the company, he will be unable to ensure that …

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2 weeks, 3 days ago

'Self-serving wannabe oligarchs': Congressman shreds GOP plan to dismantle government

Raw Story

Rep. Greg Casar on Thursday tore into an initiative by President-elect Donald Trump's wealthy allies to cut government programs and services. The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, task force, led by tech billionaire Elon Musk and pharmaceutical entrepreneur/former Trump primary rival Vivek Ramaswamy, has pledged to cut $2 trillion from the federal government, a figure experts have said is …

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54 years, 11 months ago

She Was a Russian Socialite and Influencer. Cops Say She’s a Crypto Laundering Kingpin

Wired

In July 2016, Ekaterina Zhdanova’s star was rising. At the end of 2023, the United States government hit Zhdanova with economic sanctions for her alleged role in a crypto money-laundering operation used by Russian oligarchs, ransomware gangs, and other criminals. On Wednesday, Britain’s National Crime Agency, along with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Department of …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Glamorous millionaire's multibillion-pound Russian money laundering network is smashed by UK police: Cryptocurrency crime syndicate used by oligarchs, drug dealers, Kinahan gang and Kremlin

Daily Mail

A multibillion-pound Russian money laundering network run by a glamorous millionaire and an on-the-run businessman has been brought down by British police. Playing a key role in the conspiracy was Ekaterina Zhdanova, who was born in Siberia and built a vast network of contacts in Moscow Ms Zhdanova graced the covers of multiple business magazines during a career in financial …

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UK, US clamp down on money laundering rings allegedly favored by Russian oligarchs and Western drug gangs

CNN

CNN — UK and US authorities on Wednesday announced a major crackdown on a pair of billion-dollar money laundering rings that officials say has cleaned money for Russia’s elite, cybercriminals and drug-runners around the world. The US Treasury Department sanctioned alleged senior members of one of the money-laundering rings, while the alleged leader of the other money-laundering ring is in …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

Trump’s Next Term Could See America’s First True Oligarchs, Warns Democracy Activist Garry Kasparov

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Elon Musk, rocket and electric car company chief, sometime Internet troll and more recently Donald Trump’s point man for cutting alleged waste from the federal government, may be on the cusp of becoming something else: the country’s first real oligarch. That’s according to democracy activist and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, chairman of the New York-based …

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4 weeks ago

Now is no time to be a 'good German'

Raw Story

I’m watching the first snow in Chicago, fighting an urge to withdraw from national news for a while. MAGA reminds me of chaining a dog Hearing a dog bark all night while it’s 20º F outside, I realize I feel the same way about MAGA voters as I feel about people who chain their dog outside 24/7. Putting Trump numbers …

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1 month ago

Haitian vigilantes deal major blow to gang leader ‘Barbecue’ in furious battle

The Telegraph

For months, Haitian warlord Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier has been in the habit of announcing on social media the next targets of his brutal foot soldiers. Seemingly drunk on his own power in a shattered society where the rule of law and government institutions are notable only for their absence, the gang leader has issued death threats against everyone from the …

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1 month ago

Inside the rise of US oligarchs and how it opened a dark money 'floodgate'

ABC

There's something you should know about oligarchs. "They really don't want to be called oligarchs," explains Jeffrey Winters, a professor of political science at Chicago's Northwestern University. It's now eight years since Salena Zito made probably the most pellucid observation of all about Trump: "The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally." …

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1 month, 1 week ago

'Gloomy' Russian oligarchs think country is in trouble even with Trump win

Raw Story

The Russian government has long held that Donald Trump is to their benefit, as it went so far as to interfere on his behalf in the 2016 election, and then enjoyed years of relative friendliness as Vladimir Putin and Trump were together on the world stage. According to Bloomberg News, the Russian billionaires colloquially known as "oligarchs" do not expect …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

The 50-year war on democracy that built Trump's oligarchy and killed the American dream

Raw Story

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” — Frédéric Bastiat, Economic sophisms, 2nd series We just watched the final fulfillment of a 50 year plan. Open the lens a bit …

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54 years, 11 months ago

The Law According to Trump

Slate

About the Show The Law According to Trump is an extensive exploration of Donald Trump’s tumultuous relationship with the courts and legal system, focusing on Trump’s use of lawyers and lawsuits to enhance his brand, wealth, and power. In 2024, attention has rightly been on several blockbuster federal cases involving former President Trump, all the way up to and including …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Democracy dies in their wallets: Here's what happens when oligarchs buy the news

Raw Story

Do not obey in advance. Nonetheless, in 1906 progressive Republican Teddy Roosevelt’s administration filed an antitrust action against Rockefeller that went to the Supreme Court in 1911 during the administration of progressive Republican President William Howard Taft. The law was so rigorously enforced — so the game of business could be played by all comers, not just the “big boys” …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

‘Everything Is Subservient to the Big Guy’: Fiona Hill on Trump and America’s Emerging Oligarchy

Politico

Thinking about Trump and Putin and Musk as fellow oligarchs helps explain why they all seem so enthralled with each other. “Their interactions are all about them figuring out how to exercise power together.” When it comes to Musk, he’s promoting Trump’s candidacy and transacting with Putin because it serves his own interests in amassing political and financial power, Hill …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Georgia goes to the polls amid violence, vote-buying and ballot-stuffing claims as shadowy Putin-loving oligarch known as The Python vows to ban opposition parties if he wins

Daily Mail

Pro-Russian thugs are today attempting to 'steal' the Western ally of Georgia for Vladimir Putin in a sinister warning to Ukraine. Founder of the Georgian Dream party Bidzina Ivanishvili leaves a polling station after casting his vote in parliamentary elections in Tbilisi, Georgia October 26, 2024 Opposition parties hope to oust Georgian Dream, which they believe has been cosying up …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Starmer govt faces backlash over sanctioned Russian oligarchs' stake in UK's key oil producer

Firstpost

An investment company LetterOne which is part-owned by Russian oligarchs Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven was allowed to have a stake in Harbour Energy, the UK’s largest North Sea oil producer UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government faced major backlash after a company, backed by two sanctioned Russian oligarchs was allowed to be part of the country’s largest North Sea …

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5 months ago

Backlash over JD Vance’s ‘childless cat lady’ attack on Kamala Harris

The Telegraph

A comment by Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance that Kamala Harris is a “childless cat lady” has triggered an angry backlash from Democrats. Mr Vance, 39, who last week accepted the Republican Party’s nomination at its convention in Milwaukee, appeared to have made the comments on at least two occasions three years ago, once during a speech to a …

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5 months ago

Mika's cat trolls J.D. Vance on MSNBC after comments about 'childless women'

Raw Story

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski brought her cat to the "Morning Joe" studios to mock J.D. The Ohio senator and freshly minted Republican presidential nominee once dismissed Vice President Kamala Harris – now the likely Democratic presidential nominee — as a legitimate stakeholder in the nation she hopes to lead because, he argued, she did not have any children of her own …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

EU targets Russia’s ‘ghost fleet’, expresses concern over its ‘hybrid attacks’

The Hindu

The European Union on June 24 slapped new sanctions on Russia over its war on Ukraine, targeting Moscow’s shadow fleet of tankers moving liquefied natural gas through Europe. At a meeting in Luxembourg, where the sanctions were endorsed, EU Foreign Ministers also expressed concern about a rise in hybrid attacks by Russia — including allegations of election interference, cyber-attacks and …

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6 months ago

‘Stand Up To The Oligarchs’: Bernie Sanders Makes Passionate Plea To Reelect Rep. Jamaal Bowman

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. ― Sen. Bernie Sanders called upon Democrats in the New York City suburbs to reelect Rep. Jamaal Bowman in order to take a stand against the deep-pocketed super PACs bankrolling Bowman’s primary challenger. Bowman’s bid for a third term “is one of the most significant elections in the modern history of this country,” Sanders told …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

House GOP demands Department of Justice charges Hunter Biden with lying to Congress

Raw Story

House Republicans Wednesday issued criminal referrals against President Joe Biden's son Hunter and his brother James. Now the Republicans are demanding the Justice department — which they often accuse of political weaponization against former President Donald Trump — pursue criminal charges against Hunter and James Biden. "Hunter Biden falsely distanced himself from a corporate entity Rosemont Seneca Bohai, LLC-and its …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Worsening human rights situation in US revealed

China Daily

A homeless man sleeps on a sidewalk near the City Hall during heavy rain in San Francisco as atmospheric river storms hit California, the United States, on Jan 11, 2023. The Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2023, issued by the State Council Information Office, highlighted the worsening and increasingly polarized human rights situation in the …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Five Escaped Horses Rampaged Through Central London for Two Hours This Morning, By the Way

Slate

Five military horses being prepared for participation in a ceremonial event ran wild in central London on Wednesday morning, the BBC and other news outlets reported, traveling distances of as much as 5 miles before being calmed and given veterinary care. A video statement issued by an army spokesman describes the horses as having been brought “to safety.” The horses …

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8 months ago

Patriots true story: The Crown’s creator turns Putin’s rise into a Shakespearean drama.

Slate

Vladimir Putin’s rise to power is the stuff of Shakespearean drama, so it’s no surprise that the tale is now the subject of a play, which ran on London’s West End last summer and opened on Broadway this week. The premise of Patriots is that Berezovsky “created” Putin, insinuating this low-level former KGB spy and deputy mayor into President Boris …

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"Oligarchs are oligarching": Inside Rupert Murdoch’s family trust battle

'Self-serving wannabe oligarchs': Congressman shreds GOP plan to dismantle government

She Was a Russian Socialite and Influencer. Cops Say She’s a Crypto Laundering Kingpin

Glamorous millionaire's multibillion-pound Russian money laundering network is smashed by UK police: Cryptocurrency crime syndicate used by oligarchs, drug dealers, Kinahan gang and Kremlin

UK, US clamp down on money laundering rings allegedly favored by Russian oligarchs and Western drug gangs

Trump’s Next Term Could See America’s First True Oligarchs, Warns Democracy Activist Garry Kasparov

Now is no time to be a 'good German'

Haitian vigilantes deal major blow to gang leader ‘Barbecue’ in furious battle

Inside the rise of US oligarchs and how it opened a dark money 'floodgate'

'Gloomy' Russian oligarchs think country is in trouble even with Trump win

The 50-year war on democracy that built Trump's oligarchy and killed the American dream

The Law According to Trump

Democracy dies in their wallets: Here's what happens when oligarchs buy the news

‘Everything Is Subservient to the Big Guy’: Fiona Hill on Trump and America’s Emerging Oligarchy

Georgia goes to the polls amid violence, vote-buying and ballot-stuffing claims as shadowy Putin-loving oligarch known as The Python vows to ban opposition parties if he wins

Starmer govt faces backlash over sanctioned Russian oligarchs' stake in UK's key oil producer

Backlash over JD Vance’s ‘childless cat lady’ attack on Kamala Harris

Mika's cat trolls J.D. Vance on MSNBC after comments about 'childless women'

EU targets Russia’s ‘ghost fleet’, expresses concern over its ‘hybrid attacks’

‘Stand Up To The Oligarchs’: Bernie Sanders Makes Passionate Plea To Reelect Rep. Jamaal Bowman

House GOP demands Department of Justice charges Hunter Biden with lying to Congress

Worsening human rights situation in US revealed

Five Escaped Horses Rampaged Through Central London for Two Hours This Morning, By the Way

Patriots true story: The Crown’s creator turns Putin’s rise into a Shakespearean drama.