Month: February 2019
Signature Bank to Offer Accounts to Bermuda’s Crypto Startups
Signature Bank of New York will soon offer full banking services to financial technology firms in Bermuda, including crypto startups that have struggled to secure accounts. In a press release Thursday night, the government of Bermuda announced that Signature would...
The untold truth of Spike Lee
Spike Lee's not known for biting his tongue because he's usually too busy making biting remarks. In 2011, he turned his fangs on Tyler Perry, the mind behind the Madea series. Per NPR, Lee characterized a lot of current black...
The complex question of self-defence, home invasion and the law
Posted March 01, 2019 08:30:00 The question of what legally qualifies as self-defence when intruders enter your property was recently at the centre of a high-profile case in the NT Supreme Court. A jury last week found Top End identity...
New Freelancing Platform Supports 12 Different Cryptocurrencies
There’s a new freelancing platform called Freelance for Coins that provides users with the ability to publish offers and bids for cryptocurrencies. In order to help facilitate deals between users, the service not only allows people to publish their bids...
VOLTA’s Displaced Dealers Suddenly Get a Plan B as David Zwirner Teams Up With Peter Hort to Host an Emergency Pop-Up Fair
With the sudden cancellation of VOLTA New York just days before the fair was meant to open on Pier 90, dealers are scrambling to make plans about what to do with the artworks many have already shipped to New York...
Trump Can’t Make a North Korea Deal on His Own
A much-touted two-day summit between Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un failed to reach the finish line Thursday, as talks collapsed and Trump returned to Washington, DC. It’s unclear exactly what unraveled the process; Trump says Kim asked...
Spotify and Warner Music are fighting, so Spotify users in India can’t listen to Cardi B or Ed Sheeran
The music business is booming, for real. Buoyed by streaming, sales have been growing for the least three years, and music labels, which once looked DOA, are hot properties again. But that doesn’t mean everyone in the music business is...
No Israeli Jewish party can form a coalition with a Palestinian party (and yes there’s something wrong with that)
American liberal Zionists are feeling hopeful right now. With today’s indictments, they are all visualizing the downfall of Benjamin Netanyahu (count me in on that). And they are crowing about the American Jewish criticism of Netanyahu for working with an extremist...
The EU expat vote in the European elections
EU citizens living in a member state other than their country of origin represent more than 3% of the European electorate. In previous European elections, the majority of these citizens did not vote. Will they vote this time round? Thursday...
Trump-Kim summit breaks down after North Korea demands end to sanctions
President Donald Trump: "Sometimes you have to walk" A summit between Donald Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ended with no agreement after the US refused North Korean demands for sanctions relief, the US president has said. "It...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Grills Michael Cohen, Laying Out Plan to Probe More Trump Crimes
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, as we go now to New York Democratic Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez questioning...
Squatter’s Digest: Grow Heathrow halved, ciao to Asilo
I do have a pretty good excuse for being a little late in writing this month’s column, namely being arrested and remanded for a squatting-related offence (of which I am not guilty for the record, as I will be testifying...
Trump leaves Hanoi without a deal after abrupt end to Kim summit
The nuclear summit between US President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in Hanoi ended without an agreement Thursday, the White House said after the two leaders cut short their discussions. North Korea 'wanted sanctions lifted in their entirety," Trump said...
US President Donald Trump claims his former lawyer Michael Cohen ‘lied’, but was right about ‘no collusion’ with Russia
Michael Cohen, former lawyer to US President Donald J. Trump, reacts while listening to the closing remarks of House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, while appearing before the House Oversight and Reform Committee. Photo: EPA-EFE Read More
Mirakl raises $70 million to manage the marketplace of your e-commerce website
French startup Mirakl raised a $70 million funding round. Bain Capital is leading the round with existing investors 83North, Felix Capital and Elaia Partners also participating. If you’ve bought a few products from a third-party seller on an e-commerce website...
Ukrainian Presidential Election: Yulia Tymoshenko Attempts a Comeback
February 28, 2019 11:06 AM Yulia Tymoshenko scares people, and she knows it. In early February, the Ukrainian politician spoke to European business representatives in Kiev. She was clad in a gray outfit with her hair tied up in a...
Citizen Pulitzer: Patron Saint of the Oppressed
As a President with tyrannical tendencies attacks journalists as “enemies of the people,” and members of the press, including The Washington Post’s Jamal Khashoggi are being assassinated, a cinematic cycle is emerging in defense of the Fourth Estate. The documentary...
Vietnamese tanker bound for North Korea with gasoline cargo as Trump, Kim meet in Hanoi
A Vietnamese tanker was bound for North Korea carrying 2,000 tonnes of gasoline, Refinitiv shipping data showed, just as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump prepared for key talks on security and cooperation in the...
8 Artists Age 35 and Under Whose Work Is Already Being Taught in Art History Classes
It’s not easy to crack the art-historical canon. Even many of the world’s best artists don’t make it into textbooks, major museum collections, or the larger cultural conversation until late in life—or well after their deaths. There is, however, the...
Reforming the EU: Placing the individual and the citizen at the centre of the Union’s policies
28 February 2019 – VoxEurop The European Union's relationship with European citizens is filtered by national governments, which in most cases take credit for the progress made under European law, while attributing exclusive responsibility for unpopular choices to "Brussels". This...