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Marvel, Jack Kirby Heirs Settle Dispute Over Superhero Rights
2014-09-26 21:51:22| Toys - Topix.net
The family of Jack Kirby and Marvel Entertainment have resolved a long-running legal dispute over the rights to some of the most popular characters in Marvel's library, including "Spider-Man" and "X-Men." "Marvel and the family of Jack Kirby have amicably resolved their legal disputes, and are looking forward to advancing their shared goal of honoring Mr. Kirby's significant role in Marvel's history," the litigants announced in a joint statement on Friday.
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Big Oils heirs join call for action as climate summit opens
2014-09-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: For 140 years, the Rockefellers were the oil industrys first family, scions of a business empire that spawned companies called Exxon, Mobil, Amoco and Chevron. So it was no trivial matter when a group of Rockefeller heirs decided recently to begin severing financial ties to fossil fuels. There is a moral imperative to preserve a healthy planet, said Valerie Rockefeller Wayne, a great-great-granddaughter of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller Sr. and a trustee of the largest charitable foundation...
Rockefellers, Heirs to an Oil Fortune, Will Divest Charity From Fossil Fuels
2014-09-22 05:41:21| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: John D. Rockefeller built a vast fortune on oil. Now his heirs are abandoning fossil fuels. The family whose legendary wealth flowed from Standard Oil is planning to announce on Monday that its $860 million philanthropic organization, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, is joining the divestment movement that began a couple years ago on college campuses. The announcement, timed to precede Tuesdays opening of the United Nations climate change summit meeting in New York City, is part of a broader and...
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Today's pygmy protestors are no heirs to Martin Luther King
2013-08-29 21:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The rhetoric of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech remains electrifying, as tributes this week to the poetic genius of those words spoken half a century ago have reminded us. But how should we gauge its legacy? The march by 250,000 people on Washington DC that day in 1963 wasn't for freedom alone, it was also for jobs. Then, two in every five black families in the US lived below the poverty line. Today, a quarter still do. For all the explosion of wealth since King's death, millions of...
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Heirs to invest $2.5bn in energy projects under Power Africa Initiative
2013-07-02 10:00:00| Power Technology
Pan-African proprietary investment company Heirs Holdings will allocate $2.5bn to energy projects under the Power Africa Initiative, a five-year partnership between the US, six African governments and a group of private sector companies.
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