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Lorne Michaels, other celebs sued by convicted Ponzi-schemer who still wants to get paid
2015-06-23 19:05:47| Footwear - Topix.net
When former New York accountant Kenneth I. Starr gets out of jail next year, he'd like to have the fees waiting for him that he charged some pretty famous people to invest their money - this in spite of the fact that he's in jail for fraudulent investing. Among about 50 former clients who have been sued, Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels , is fighting a lawsuit alleging he owes $37,500; photographer Annie Liebowitz is fighting a suit alleging she owes $440,306.89; and movie producer, Harvey Weinstein , is fighting a suit alleging he owes $25,000, according to a New York Post report .
How much does the world spend to subsidize fossil fuels? The IMF wants to know
2015-06-15 10:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The folks at the IMF yes, that great Satan of the 90s just released a working paper on how much we all pay to subsidize fossil fuels like oil, gas, and coal. Seriously. All the humans currently on this planet. They tallied up what we pay to help energy companies get fossil fuels out of the ground. The technical term for that is pre-tax subsidies. Then they tallied up what we pay out for traffic accidents, and the health bills for those people whose pink little lungs are affected by air...
Give Dad something he really wants for Father's Day
2015-06-06 07:27:53| Apparel - Topix.net
Give Dad something he really wants for Father's Day. Father's Day is June 21, and the countdown has begun to find a gift that lets your Dad know how much you appreciate all he does for you, how very special he is to you and how much you love him.
Shell knows climate change is real, but it wants to drill Arctic anyway
2015-05-18 20:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: A man of Ben van Beurdens power and reputation for blunt speaking is capable of silencing a ballroom packed with his boisterous peers. When the chief executive of Shell rose to address an industry gathering in a London hotel, a respectful hush descended. Van Beurden, 57, rose from a modest background in the Netherlands to the top of a cut-throat, politically fraught sector that rarely finds itself out of the public firing line. The annual black-tie dinner at International Petroleum Week in February,...
A 'Dumb Pipe' No More: What Verizon Wants from AOL
2015-05-17 04:06:15| Telecom - Topix.net
When Verizon Communications announced Tuesday that it will buy digital content distributor AOL for $4.4 billion, the wireless giant signaled that it won't quietly watch others make money using its network. Instead of being just a "dumb pipe" - i.e., the network that is used to transfer bytes between the Internet and consumers' cell phones - Verizon now wants to create and monetize the content carried on its networks.
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