Here's who's bankrolling the fight against legal marijuana Here's who's bankrolling the fight against legal marijuana Even by the usual standards of politics, this election's campaign against marijuana legalization has made strange bedfellows.
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Welfare payments are criticised for deterring work and bankrolling addictions.
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Bankrolling archaeology in this way is not an ideal solution.
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It's bankrolling partisan attack ads put out by third-party groups.
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He denied bankrolling the plot or participating in the teahouse meetings.
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It tried to avoid price hikes by directly bankrolling energy companies.
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Bankrolling one set of shareholders is the hedge fund Elliott Management.
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This alone does not mean that Indiana is bankrolling New York.
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John Brockman While he was bankrolling Edge, Epstein attended its events.
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If he does run, he won't have trouble bankrolling his own campaign.
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A Republican congressman wondered whether billionaire George Soros was bankrolling the group.
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By bankrolling its development, despite grim feasibility studies and rapidly ballooning expenditures.
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Since then, private investors around Silicon Valley have been bankrolling the technology.
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"I was bankrolling the games, vetting the players, extending the credit," she said.
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If you are doing business with the IRGC, you will be bankrolling terrorism.
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The company has been bankrolling an expansion to seven-day ground delivery services.
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Shut your pubescently-manicured face and put the damn clothes on—they're bankrolling you.
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Amazon paid millions to work with Woody Allen, bankrolling a new series and film.
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His bankrolling of progressive causes has made him a favorite target for conservative pundits.
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When I asked who was bankrolling Luxe Gaming — was there a mysterious angel investor?
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It's strange because Rachel is the one who is allegedly bankrolling this entire escapade.
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The mine could help local people indirectly, too, by bankrolling a cash-strapped government.
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PAC bankrolling almost all the ads for Bush, slammed Kasich for expanding Medicaid and
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Instead of bankrolling Hezbollah, Hamas, and Bashar al-Assad, why not buy more pharmaceuticals?
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IMF Bentham is bankrolling the CBA class action, Australia's largest with some 800,000 potential complainants.
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His critics say this is untrue and that Hun Sen is simply bankrolling the site.
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Accused of bankrolling the plot, he is a former military intelligence captain named Zeyar Phyo.
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In the U.S., he's been falsely accused of bankrolling both antifa and anti-Kavanaugh demonstrations.
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You spent a literal fortune on your race, including $7 million bankrolling Democratic Statehouse races.
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And Japan's television networks and corporate sponsors are vital to bankrolling the International Skating Union.
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The emphasis on bankrolling consumer suits is newer and potentially even more profitable for lenders.
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It's not surprising that Big Pharma is bankrolling the corporate campaign to pass USMCA as-is.
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Last year, Variety broke the news that Apple was looking at bankrolling its own original content.
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"If you are doing business with the IRGC, you will be bankrolling terrorism," Mr Trump said.
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She demands answers from Beth and money from Alison, who is apparently bankrolling the whole operation.
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Thiel further angered First Amendment supporters by bankrolling the Hulk Hogan lawsuit that brought down Gawker.
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FEC filings show that Foley was responsible for heavily bankrolling Zinke's first congressional campaign in Montana.
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At some point, Congress will tire of bankrolling a kleptocratic government fighting a never-ending war.
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"Amazon paid millions to work with Woody Allen, bankrolling a new series and film," Farrow wrote.
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The United States has spent hundreds of millions of dollars bankrolling anti-Shabab operations for years.
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The regime should invest in its own people instead of bankrolling dictators, terrorists, missiles and militias.
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Tor, a volunteer lead effort, is bankrolling their bounty with help from the Open Technology Fund.
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Treasury also sanctioned Yevgeny Prigozhin, known as "Putin's chef," for his role in bankrolling Russian hackers.
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Even just this week, Bloomberg reported that Apple might start bankrolling exclusive shows for Apple Podcasts, too.
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The case threatens to draw Tymoshenko into a broader scandal surrounding Gaddafi's alleged bankrolling of foreign elections.
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Epstein also claimed to be bankrolling research efforts into some sort of stalker particle, the Times wrote:Mr.
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Insys gained notoriety recently for bankrolling the campaign against marijuana legalization in Arizona during the November election.
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We need to ensure that banks stop bankrolling and profiting off climate chaos and human rights abuses.
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Thiel, a major conservative donor, revealed in May that he was bankrolling Hogan's fight against Gawker Media.
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Mr. Hearst, whose family owns The San Francisco Chronicle and many other media properties, is bankrolling Alta.
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Right-wing commentators have accused him of bankrolling left-wing protest movements like Black lives Matter and antifa.
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Thiel, it was revealed recently, is bankrolling Terry Bollea (aka Hulk Hogan) in his legal pursuits against Gawker.
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FOR THE 0.1%, building a legacy long involved amassing million-dollar artworks and bankrolling those who create them.
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It's not fine when the public is bankrolling his efforts, as it is with SpaceX's crewed spaceflight program.Ouch.
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Several Silicon Valley leaders are bankrolling California State Senate leader Kevin de León, the challenger to longtime Sen.
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Already, protesters in Iran are demanding to know why their government lets them suffer while bankrolling a butcher.
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It envisions the bankrolling of clean-energy projects across Asia, including the Mideast, East Africa and Eastern Europe.
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Friess, who made his name on the political scene after bankrolling a super PAC that backed former Sen.
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If the U.S. military cannot refrain from bankrolling child rape, then the U.S. should not be in Afghanistan.
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Billionaire Peter Thiel, a major conservative donor, revealed in May that he was bankrolling Hogan's fight against Gawker.
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As the 2018 election neared, Ms. Warren's big money was partly bankrolling an apparent 2020 apparatus in waiting.
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And this was the colonists' plan: They'd be lumberjacks, bankrolling their utopia with that enormous storehouse of wood.
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Russian oil giant Rosneft has amassed a large stake in PDVSA's U.S.-based refiner Citgo by bankrolling Venezuela.
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Another, quite different bet was secretly bankrolling the wrestler Hulk Hogan's invasion of privacy lawsuit against Gawker Media.
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In response the kingdom, which considers itself the region's Sunni champion, is accused of bankrolling Sunni jihadists in Iraq.
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Which is good for the science but is raising concern about exactly who is bankrolling the development of psychedelics.
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We should stop arming and bankrolling corrupt and oppressive regimes, and work with our allies to do the same.
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Those bankrolling the effort are mostly deep-pocketed construction groups that have a profit motive to see it pass.
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Suddenly, billionaires are bankrolling these technologies while we wring our hands about being put out of work by robots.
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Her brother, Richard Mellon Scaife, was well known for bankrolling conservative causes and attacks on Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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As the report outlines, some of the mega-donors bankrolling the NRA wanted in on the action, as well.
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The money is likely to undermine Republicans' financial advantage by bankrolling advertising in a dozen or more congressional districts.
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Currently, some Kosovo clubs have wealthy backers bankrolling their existence, while others scrape by with the help of local business.
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Technology entrepreneur and wealthy investor Peter Thiel revealed he was bankrolling the fight, creating a divide in the technology world.
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Western powers are bankrolling the G5, a regional counterterrorism force with troops from Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.
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Bankrolling the human in human-in-the-loop does cost everyone more, but people are willing to pay for performance.
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He also says she has a new child and a fiance, and he feels he's now bankrolling all of them.
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With Tehran's currency imploding and protesters rebuilding momentum, the clerical regime may find that bankrolling Damascus is no longer affordable.
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They would not have reached escape velocity without great VCs bankrolling them, and the Reality Ecosystem should be no different.
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The bankruptcy filing followed revelations that billionaire investor Peter Thiel was bankrolling Hogan's lawsuit, along with several others against Gawker.
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Billionaire investor Thiel is the one bankrolling Hogan's lawsuit, in addition to others, with the intention of destroying Gawker Media.
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Gone are the legendary benefits that supported workers and their families from childhood into old age, even bankrolling their funerals.
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There is also evidence that entities connected to the Russian government were bankrolling "troll farms" that spread fake news about Clinton.
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One of those people includes the man accused of bankrolling the hit, Alberto Miguel Rodriguez Mota, who is also at large.
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LeEco is also known for bankrolling Faraday Future, the California-based automotive startup that came out of stealth mode in 2015.
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And, she's bankrolling half of the businesses in town, all of which lost of a lot of patronage with the accident.
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A Startup Backed By Peter Thiel Makes Bankrolling Civil Lawsuits EasyIn courtrooms across America, investors are making money through litigation financing.
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The company is focusing its efforts on funding indie titles as opposed to bankrolling AAA studios to create an exclusive epic.
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Presumably, he'll also get into detail about how he was bankrolling his fellow gang members -- something prosecutors revealed in court docs.
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It brings to mind ambitious venturers, bankrolling crusades and conquests, opening up spice routes and making history—for good and ill.
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In Italy and Iceland churches get a cut of income tax, so it is hard for taxpayers to avoid bankrolling them.
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One thing is clear: until Exxon stops bankrolling disinformation campaigns, its claims of climate leadership can never be more than greenwash.
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Barring that form of comprehensive reform, American taxpayers will continue bankrolling an expensive, heartless crackdown on immigrants for years on end.
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Denton tweeted Monday: Thiel's bankrolling of the Hogan suit raised concerns about the wealthy using their power to bring down media outlets.
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It has also increased their ability to do so, since these actors play a fundamental role in bankrolling and organizing GOP campaigns.
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While Iran sent troops to prop up Bashar al-Assad in Syria, Gulf spymasters sat in Istanbul hotels, bankrolling disparate rebel groups.
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These aren't investments in individual lawsuits but in bundled claims, and it looks more like bankrolling an entire law firm's work product.
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For the next two years, the tech giant made admirable strides toward achieving its goal, bankrolling large solar plants and wind farms.
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The Chinese company is also bankrolling car manufacturer Faraday Future, which plans to introduce a self-driving car at CES next year.
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Neither of the women have parents bankrolling their lives, which is more than can be said of, say, the ladies on Girls.
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Rather than working for popular, bipartisan policies, the group is instead bankrolling pro-corporate Democrats, in the hopes of derailing progressive policies.
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Musk later said it was based on discussions that showed strong interest from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund in bankrolling the transaction.
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Steyer severed his formal ties to both organizations after launching his presidential campaign, but he still committed millions to bankrolling their efforts.
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One of the grim realities of climate politics today is that the elites bankrolling climate-denier politicians have made a simple calculation.
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Other than bankrolling the team, a constant inside joke of the movie, Batman doesn't feel like a crucial member of the league.
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This has turned into a conspiracy theory all its own, with many people convinced that liberal billionaire George Soros is bankrolling the site.
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In the mid-'70s to the early-'80s, the cash flow from the wildly successful London casino was bankrolling the company operations stateside.
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Russian bankrolling of political groups in countries it sees as opponents is an ongoing threat in the eyes of both Brussels and Washington.
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First they went and bought his shitty headphones company and now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, they're bankrolling his new show, Vital Signs.
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Now Nancy Pelosi and her Washington Democrats are bankrolling his campaign because Davis&apos record in Topeka is the Pelosi agenda in Washington.
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Thiel also helped Facebook with its meteoric rise, initially bankrolling the then-tiny startup for $500,000 for a 10 percent stake in 2004.
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The government has charged Bronfman with bankrolling the conspiracy by giving away tens of millions of dollars of her fortune to support Raniere.
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DeVos has helped to give the charter movement a bad name, bankrolling some of the worst "Wild West"-style versions of these schools.
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Trump's dim view of bankrolling NATO and his call for better ties with Russia have the EU looking to home-grown defense options.
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The company is attacking the role of the Rockefeller family in encouraging, and in some cases bankrolling, the investigations and campaigns against it.
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Chaika responded in the Russian daily Kommersant by dismissing the entire investigation as false and slanderous and accusing Browder of bankrolling the film.
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But the U.S. government has spent vastly more effectively bankrolling far more worse sexual atrocities in Afghanistan — in brazen violation of U.S. law.
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Berezovsky claimed he had forged close relationships with members of Russia's ruling elite and was bankrolling secret plans to mount a palace coup.
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Movie financing is always a risk, but some companies, like Bron, Participant, and the streamers Netflix and Amazon, have thrived from bankrolling projects.
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One of the biggest evolutions at the streaming giant is how it has taken on the challenge of bankrolling passion projects for auteurs.
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Bloomberg's Democratic opponents have hit the billionaire businessman in recent days, going after him for bankrolling his campaign with his personal fortune. Sen.
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Steyer has long been a staple in Democratic politics, bankrolling a host of organization and candidates for decades before he decided to run himself.
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Early in the conflict, Maryam's brother, a wealthy factory owner, was arrested in a regime crackdown to deter affluent residents from bankrolling the rebels.
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Thus, knowing that it couldn't compete with the big boys on a pure bankrolling basis, Deadpool chose to go in a completely different direction.
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The $1 billion infusion comes from Toyota, the automotive supplier Denso, and the Softbank Vision Fund, which is aggressively bankrolling ambitious transportation technology companies.
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In November, President Trump joined the pile-on, publicly entertaining bogus claims that Soros could be bankrolling the migrant "invasion" on the southern border.
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" He added, "A vote for Hillary is a vote to destroy American manufacturing and to surrender to the global special interests bankrolling Hillary's life.
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Worse, millions remain displaced and hundreds of thousands have been killed from the bloody Syrian civil war, which the Iranian regime is directly bankrolling.
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China has spent nearly five years bankrolling a plan to gain greater global influence by financing big projects across Asia, Eastern Europe and Africa.
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The organization's calculation is that its money is better spent on maintaining a motivated base of gun rights supporters than on bankrolling candidates directly.
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The royals in Riyadh have funded extremist schools and mosques in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Saudi donors are bankrolling the Taliban to this day.
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So a generation removed from that decision, and Britain and much of Europe along with it is still bankrolling slavery in the United States.
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Chuck is at the same time looking into pursuing his own shady deal by bankrolling his lawyer's investment in a company called Ice Juice.
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Steyer's money would be better spent bankrolling candidates aligned with his political vision, and educating voters on issues like corporate power and climate change.
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Moïse Katumbi, a flamboyant and wealthy former governor who fled Congo in May, is still abroad, but his money appears to be bankrolling opposition unity.
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Beneficiaries can claim the credit for 2900 years after getting eligibility, which means that American taxpayers will be bankrolling Big Wind's bottom line until 220006.
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A movie studio was interested in bankrolling the film, but only if they could attach Johansson, who's rate alone would exceed Blum's $5 million ceiling.
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Protect the Harvest, a Missouri-based nonprofit that has ties to the agriculture industry, according to the Center for Public Integrity, is bankrolling her case.
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The duo additionally capitalized on the anti-government Tea Party movement, which they greatly helped along by bankrolling the conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity.
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If you don't have a lot of money and your parents aren't bankrolling your life, that means you're probably working a second or third job.
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I understand that before UK law had it shut down in the 1980s, the original club at 45 Park Lane was basically bankrolling the whole company.
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Critics complained about her lack of experience with public schools and her bankrolling of efforts such as school vouchers that could take money from public institutions.
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But without them no message would have been sent, for Sónar is the one bankrolling the project in order to mark its 25th anniversary next year.
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Aircraft financiers have been busy for the past few years bankrolling orders of the A320neo and Boeing's rival 737 MAX, due to enter service in 2017.
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China has long been considered on the forefront of gene-editing technology, bankrolling expensive research projects and boasting less regulation in the field than Western nations.
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And if U.S. Soccer ever stops bankrolling the league, there will be no justification to have different pay structures for its men's and women's national teams.
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And they began bankrolling a pro-Trump "super PAC" in recent weeks after becoming friendly with Mr. Trump, his daughter Ivanka and her husband, Mr. Kushner.
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Their socially conscious crime novels not only take up the causes of abused children and trafficked women, but also shame the entrepreneurs bankrolling these illicit trades.
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Even Facebook's Oculus has struggled to court established studios to the system without bankrolling development, a process that could get very expensive very quickly for Sandbox.
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Saudi Arabia will not stop bankrolling Mr. Sisi's government, he said, because it needs him to prevent Egypt from descending into chaos at the Saudis' border.
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For every tale of a conservative pushing supply-side economics or traditional marriage via "charitable" giving, he spotlights a liberal bankrolling gun control or clean energy.
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In addition, there is evidence that entities connected to the Russian government were bankrolling "troll farms" that spread fake news about Clinton, according to the former official.
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Think what you want of Gawker and/or free press, but a billionaire is bankrolling a scheme aimed to make a bunch of people lose their jobs.
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Political strategists noted that the Hamptons are the perfect place for Trump and 2020 Democrats to find donors with enough money to assist in bankrolling their campaigns.
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The Ukrainian is bankrolling it but hopes to break even next year when the league will expand to six teams from America and six teams from Europe.
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There are lots of things about being a young adult that are unfortunately unavoidably cliché, unless you're truly fortunate enough to have parents bankrolling you into adulthood.
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In addition, LeEco — a Chinese company that is bankrolling Faraday Future while working on its own electric car — will be involved in the sponsorship with Dragon Racing.
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But this year, his scaled-down plan for a division into three states succeeded, thanks in part to his bankrolling an expensive drive that gathered 600,000 signatures.
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She drew some resentment because her wealthy family was bankrolling her campaign, and scrutiny about her appearance when the judges deemed some of her colorful outfits inappropriate.
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All that's needed is a billionaire with a vendetta, as Gawker discovered when it was revealed that Silicon Valley impresario Peter Thiel was bankrolling Hogan's legal team.
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The billionaire businessman's long-standing policy of bankrolling his political ambitions puts him in conflict with the Democratic National Committee's requirements for participating in presidential primary debates.
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Meanwhile, the company privately funded climate denial campaigns, bankrolling advocacy groups that sought to cast uncertainty over climate science, even after pledging to stop funding climate deniers.
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The new campaign also aims to force Iran to curtail its aggressive behavior in the region, which includes bankrolling Hezbollah and sending fighters to prop up Assad.
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Steyer is the founder of NextGen America, an environmentally focused nonprofit and political action committee, and has spent millions of dollars bankrolling the "Need to Impeach" campaign.
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Steyer has operated as a funding force in Democratic politics in recent years, bankrolling candidates and organizations that promote liberal causes, including the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
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RELATED: Congress deluged with phone calls Democrats, backed by public school groups and teachers' unions, have lambasted her background bankrolling efforts to support opposing ideas like school vouchers.
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The Times article notes that brands like "Walmart, Staples and Mattel are bankrolling lucrative endorsements deals for toddlers," but obviously other toddlers are not the target demographic here.
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As Jurgenson notes in the intro post, Snapchat is bankrolling the whole thing, just as it funds a conference he chairs and at least some of his research.
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Compare that with Apple's 35 or so original shows and movies: A handful of series, none of which are major existing franchises, that Apple is bankrolling from scratch.
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That didn't stop Epstein in 2008 from essentially bankrolling one of Wexner's first nonprofit foundations with a contribution of more than $40 million in stock and other assets.
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A couple months later, Forbes revealed that the person bankrolling Hogan's lawsuit, and likely a few others against Gawker, was tech billionaire and Donald Trump supporter Peter Thiel.
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And in Africa it's bankrolling an even more ambitious project called Target Malaria, which intends to use a Crispr-based gene drive to exterminate local populations of mosquitoes.
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But given the president-elect's promises to "drain the swamp" of Washington, DC, it's striking how many of his cabinet picks have been bankrolling the GOP for years.
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Proponents say transparency would unearth conflicts of interest that a judge may have if, say, she has a stake in a hedge fund that is bankrolling the plaintiff.
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The American public needs to be aware of what has been happening in the Middle East because of Iran and its bankrolling of terrorism and fomenting of hostilities.
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On Monday, Andrew Ross Sorkin, a columnist for The New York Times, wrote that Mr. Denton wondered if someone in Silicon Valley was bankrolling Mr. Bollea's legal case.
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He says the teams, whose only source of revenue is what they receive from sponsors, are "bankrolling" the UCI and have effectively had their negotiating rights taken away.
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Now, advertisers like Walmart, Staples and Mattel are bankrolling lucrative endorsements deals for toddlers and tweens with large followings and their own verified profiles on YouTube and Instagram.
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Lawmakers are bankrolling the new School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State, and the University of Arizona's Department of Political Economy and Moral Science.
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When the program was created in 9823, its goal was to help ensure that Americans had access to affordable nursing homes by bankrolling the construction of new facilities.
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Mr. Durst, who leads a large Manhattan real estate family, had financed the lawsuits secretly, until a year ago, when Mr. Diller accused him of bankrolling the opposition.
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Two months later, Turkey seriously upped the ante, bankrolling a ceremony for 2,000 couples that was attended by officials from Hamas, the militant group that rules the territory.
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Ms. Weingarten called Ms. DeVos's confirmation a "sad day for children" and has accused the billionaire secretary of undermining public education by bankrolling school choice initiatives in Michigan.
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Even before her hearing, critics pointed to DeVos's lack of experience with public schools and her bankrolling of efforts like school vouchers that could take money from public institutions.
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The SoftBank fund responsible for bankrolling now-embattled WeWork is reportedly dialing back its hallmark high-risk investment strategy and doubling down on corporate governance at its current holdings.
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Image: Terry Spencer/APAnd directly south of Lake Okeechobee lie some of the state's most lucrative sugar farms, whose lobbyists, environmentalists say, are bankrolling state legislature re-election campaigns.
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Last October, he suggested Soros was bankrolling the migrant caravan, and, in May, he said Orbán was "like me, a little bit controversial" and promised to sell him missiles.
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Washington (CNN)A Russian company accused of bankrolling a vast online campaign to influence the 2016 US election joined the attacks against special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation on Monday.
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"His support of Trump is not just a vote, it's bankrolling literally millions of dollars toward his campaign and toward all the infrastructure that could get Trump re-elected."
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Let's just hope none of these rentals get stuck in the Condé escalator — something tells us the publisher won't be bankrolling the 70%-of-retail fee for damaged items.
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He spends much of his time pandering to Reddit bros and Rick and Morty fans on social media; the rest is spent bankrolling a series of futuristic transportation endeavors.
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Granted, Netflix spends great gobs of money bankrolling all sorts of programming, and Reynolds possesses the kind of loyal following likely to garner the attention that the service craves.
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But even had he not gotten the judgment, he would have, it turns out, because he was bankrolling the Hulk Hogan thing, could have tied up Gawker for years.
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A top McConnell aide, Brian McGuire, confirmed that the GOP leader met with Stutzman last year but declined further comment, referring inquiries about the ads to the groups bankrolling them.
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Elon Musk's company is bankrolling two capital intensive projects: Starlink, a network of thousands of small internet satellites, and Starship, a massive rocket to send people and cargo to Mars.
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It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the amount of people bankrolling various forms of art that were also involved in money-making schemes that directly/indirectly put profit before humanity.
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Jordan opened the house to the public around 1960, at the insistence of his father, who had been bankrolling the project and wanted to see some return on his investment.
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Those machinations were first made public last year when Thiel was revealed to be bankrolling Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against the former digital media empire for publishing the wrestler's sex tape.
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Freedom from fees will save them money in the short term, but the long-term consequences will shrink their bank accounts and benefit the very corporate interests bankrolling their case.
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The anti-Qatar campaign was a patchwork of true and false or questionable claims that only muddied the waters around the ransom and Qatar's broader culpability in bankrolling Islamist groups.
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It resulted in decreased Democratic turnout, a crucial drop in the bankrolling of Democratic candidates and, more subtly but no less significantly, a debilitating sense of powerlessness among union members.
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A subsidiary of the fund is bankrolling a group of institutional investors who are suing Volkswagen because of the losses they suffered as a result of the company's emissions cheating.
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Living under an oligarchic system, we should develop a healthy skepticism of the actions of billionaires, whether they are running for office, bankrolling other candidates or giving billions to charity.
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Murray Energy, the nation's largest privately-owned coal company, is bankrolling groups and residents opposed to a planned $126 million six-turbine Icebreaker Wind project off the coast of Cleveland.
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But the tradeoff is that investors bankrolling these rounds are taking less ownership, likely due to the number of other investors involved by the time a company reaches this milestone.
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The CCF would gather European influencers under the guise of promoting "cultural freedom" —and indeed most intellectuals and artists involved in the congress were not aware of its CIA bankrolling.
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Mo Brooks, a conservative House Republican running for Senate, in Decatur on Monday said they were confident that philanthropist George Soros was bankrolling both sides of this weekend's violent clashes.
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Prigozhin was indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller earlier this week for orchestrating and bankrolling a long-running Russian scheme to conduct "information warfare" during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.
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NEVER interfere in other countries' internal affairs, Vladimir Putin has insisted—except by invading them, bankrolling their nastiest politicians and, perhaps, conspiring to embarrass America's Democratic Party and its presidential candidate.
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Yet modern economies generally depend on young people making this step—which to many of us feels about as likely as a Donald J. Trump presidency bankrolling free tuition for everyone.
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With billions of dollars in sanctions relief, the regime is solidifying its rule over Syria, Iraq and Yemen, tightening its stranglehold on Lebanon, and increasing its bankrolling of Hezbollah and Hamas.
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He made his money through investing in fashion brands such as Tommy Hilfiger and Michael Kors, but came to wider prominence in motor racing circles after bankrolling his son&aposs career.
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Stung by a 2007 story on Gawker's Valleywag blog that outed him as gay, Thiel wound up bankrolling Hulk Hogan's successful lawsuit over a sex tape Gawker published without his consent.
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LONDON, May 11 (Reuters) - The billionaire stockbroker bankrolling the campaign to pull Britain out of the European Union agrees with opponents of Brexit that it will make the country more insecure.
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon highlighted the risks a Brexit poses to jobs, and exit camp immediately tried to spin that to say that big banks were bankrolling the anti-Brexit campaign.
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But he held off from proposing some of the more radical ideas he had floated as an academic, such as accelerating the pace of the BOJ's bond buying or bankrolling government debt.
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"There would be criticism from the G20, because the economic impact would be the same as bankrolling government spending and influencing the currency," Akihiko Noda, senior economist at Mizuho Research Institute, said.
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Lampert is no stranger to bankrolling Sears, having extended loans through his hedge fund ESL Investments Inc to the department store chain over the past decade until its financial collapse last year.
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"That is a substantial amount of money that we have reasonable cause to believe goes into bankrolling the North's nuclear and missile programs," Cha told House Foreign Affairs Committee on Jan. 13.
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Now, those banks — which include Citigroup and Wells Fargo of the United States, TD Bank of Canada and Mizuho of Japan — have come under fire for their role in bankrolling the pipeline.
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In the 1990s, Mr. Scaife was one of the leading financiers of the right-wing effort to bring down the Clintons, bankrolling conservative think tanks and publications — as well as Judicial Watch.
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Driving the news: Tesla CEO Elon Musk offered new details Monday about his discussions with Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, called the Public Investment Fund (PIF), about bankrolling his take-private plan.
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China is, at the same time, bankrolling new financial organizations that aim to rival or displace the international institutions created by the United States and its allies after the Second World War.
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Ricciardi said some investors comfortable with lower returns have signaled interest in bankrolling future social workers and teachers, whereas more profit-minded investors can choose to throw their money behind future engineers.
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Yes, he has a few cards left to play, but for the most part he's learning that ruling is more than one surprise sneak attack — especially once the guy bankrolling your play dies.
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The ECB is blamed by sections of the German public opinion for eating into savings and bankrolling indebted governments in southern Europe through its policy of low interest rates and aggressive bond purchases.
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Pompeo on Friday, during a three-day trip to Chile, Paraguay and Peru, accused China of aiding Venezuela's economic collapse by bankrolling President Nicolas Maduro as the country spirals into deepening political crisis.
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"Voters in battleground districts will be disappointed to hear Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi are bankrolling Democratic candidates because he or she will be a reliable vote for progressive policies," the spokesman said.
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The expansion into new territories has also put the sport's position on human rights in the spotlight, and questions about the records of some of the governments bankrolling the new races are awkward.
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And Legalist, a San Francisco litigation finance start-up, said that a Weinstein-related marketing pitch had attracted new clients, and that the company was now bankrolling three lawsuits against alleged sexual abusers.
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Collaboration is integral to the profession, and the work of more junior writers is ultimately subservient to the vision of the showrunner (not to mention the desires of the companies bankrolling the project).
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Steyer is also bankrolling "Talk to Trump ads" that are currently running on "Fox and Friends," which "highlights real people calling out Trump's presidency for the failure it is," according to Steyer's campaign.
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But the more recent announcements also appear to make good on a promise by Bloomberg that his costly bid would not divert funds away from the Democratic causes he's been bankrolling for years.
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Lebanon, with its diverse sectarian composition, has long been a battleground for the two regional powers, with Shiite Iran bankrolling Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia, and Sunni Saudi Arabia supporting opposing political parties and figures.
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And by bankrolling doctors who had approved earlier drugs in the same class, the companies might be able to better ensure favorable research on their behalf as their drug goes through the development pipeline.
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Richie successfully sold his share to the mobster who had been bankrolling Rondelay, that way getting the money he needed to start American Century, and asked if Lester could be released from his contract.
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It has led some to suggest that Macron sees Germany as a cash cow which will be forced into bankrolling other states — something which Jean Pisani-Ferry, economic programme coordinator for Marcon' campaign, denies.
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The ECB's policy has been blamed in Germany for bankrolling indebted governments south of the Alps, depressing returns for savers and fuelling price bubbles in richer countries in the north of the euro zone.
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Women are bankrolling political campaigns this year more than ever, driven by their rising rank in the workplace, boosts in women's wealth, and networks set up to gather their donations and bolster their influence.
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Led by Alex's older brother Francisco "Pacho" Cifuentes, the family accrued power in the Colombian underworld throughout the '90s and 2000s by killing off rivals and bankrolling a paramilitary group that controlled cocaine production.
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Sheldon Adelson, a key backer of Mr. Trump's campaign, had been a devoted Netanyahu backer for far longer, even bankrolling a supportive daily newspaper that is now the closest Israeli equivalent to Fox News.
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Founded in 13, Deutsche Bank spent most of its first 12 decades helping mighty German companies like Siemens expand internationally, as well as bankrolling infrastructure projects — primarily railroads — in Europe, Asia and North America.
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Other than being recognized as one of the top venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, Thiel was revealed as the person bankrolling Terry Bollea, also known as Hulk Hogan, in his lawsuit against media outlet Gawker.
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" Mr Trump's most devoted tribune on television, the Fox News channel commentator Sean Hannity, devoted a segment of a show to the question: "Who is bankrolling the protests taking place at airports across the country?
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Soon enough, he's sleeping over in her luxurious apartment, asking what her daughter Veronica is hiding in her safe (it's designer handbags), and eventually moving into the pricey waterfront home Debra is bankrolling for him.
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Elon Musk is bankrolling the majority of this endeavor as well as acting as its CEO, with $100 million of the $158 million it has raised so far coming from the SpaceX and Tesla CEO.
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For an agency that routinely warns lawmakers and the public that it lacks sufficient resources and funding to effectively manage wild horses and burros, the idea of bankrolling mass surgical sterilizations doesn't make fiscal sense.
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The three countries bankrolling the search for the missing Boeing 777-200 agreed in April last year not to expand the search area unless new information provided clear clues that the plane was somewhere else.
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For several years, the C.I.A. has joined with the spy services of several Arab nations to arm and train the rebels at bases in Jordan and Qatar, with the Saudis bankrolling much of the operation.
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And those expenditures do not reckon the cost to American security interests of Arab and Muslim resentment toward the United States for enabling and bankrolling the oppression of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
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The ECB's policy of low rates has been unpopular with sections of the German public and political class, who fear it erodes returns on savings while bankrolling indebted governments in the south of the bloc.
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But that slice of energy spending plays an outsize role in helping commercialize new technologies — particularly since private investors often lack patience for bankrolling large-scale energy infrastructure that may take decades to pan out.
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Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, similarly gained credit for focusing UN attention on the serial violations of the Security Council bans of Iran's ballistic missile tests and its bankrolling of terror.
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Ultra-wealthy people under age 45 are not only less interested in bankrolling museums and theaters than those who are older, but also want to be more personally involved in the organizations they do support.
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A number of conservative advocacy groups have sprung up in recent years, bankrolling efforts to challenge voter registrations, and are a counterweight to civil rights groups and legal organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Before officially launching his campaign in July, Steyer has mainly operated as a funding force in Democratic politics in recent years, bankrolling candidates and organizations that promote liberal causes, including the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
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Read MoreHow Kim Jong Un is bankrolling his nuclear ambitions The U.N. action calls for inspecting all cargo going in and out of the country, banning weapons trade and expanding the list of individuals facing sanctions.
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In an earlier meeting in New York, when Code and Dawkins were introduced to the undercover agent, who they thought would be bankrolling their nascent operation, they explained in a recorded video how the business worked.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Christine Lagarde will face a momentous decision in her first year as European Central Bank President: give up on reviving inflation or give in to the temptation of bankrolling governments with neverending bond purchases.
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Others, including ITF president David Haggerty and Gerard Pique, whose Kosmos Tennis company are bankrolling the revamped competition to the tune of $218 million every year for 210 years, say it marks a new, exciting chapter.
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The nation is bankrolling the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and al Nusra Front and is widely known to support the radical Islamist opposition in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and the Shiite opposition in Bahrain.
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Instead of entering the presidential race as an exemplar of Republican success in a Democratic state, Mr. Christie limped in as an embattled figure who had largely lost the confidence of the wealthiest donors bankrolling presidential campaigns.
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For Adams, the fact that Stein has no wealthy corporate donors bankrolling her campaign makes her inherently "more authentic and honest" than Clinton, who he says has spent the last 25 years courting rich donors and celebrities.
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In this context, central banks' bond holdings, negative rates or even de facto bankrolling of government spending no longer look temporary or all that unconventional.. Still, an even larger footprint for central banks poses a political challenge.
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In an interesting twist, LeEco is also bankrolling Faraday Future, the California-based electric car startup that has poached hundreds of auto industry staff in recent years and is currently building a $1 billion factory in Nevada.
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This week we learned that billionaire Peter Thiel, who made his fortune as a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook, has been bankrolling a lawsuit that could drive Gawker Media out of business.
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One big question, via Axios' Dan Primack: The IPO's seeming demise, or at least deep freeze, could be good or bad news for the prospect of the Saudis bankrolling CEO Elon Musk's plan to take Tesla private.
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This has been a long standing objection of opponents of the ECB's bond-buying programme in richer countries such as Germany, which fear it may turn into a tool for bankrolling their indebted neighbours in southern Europe.
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Mr. Dotcom is a high-profile figure in New Zealand, known for his lavish public parties and displays of wealth, and for releasing an album and bankrolling an unsuccessful political party ahead of the country's 2014 election.
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I worked alongside Bloomberg when he was mayor of New York for nearly a decade and I can offer a pretty educated guess about how he is likely thinking about the possibility of bankrolling the Sanders campaign.
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The intrigue: The Saudi interest in the electric vehicle market attracted intense attention recently when Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he'd held advanced discussions with the PIF about bankrolling his expensive, now-abandoned plan to take Tesla private.
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Home court advantage has helped Goxip build an impressive presence in Hong Kong, but essentially the service is taking on Instagram, Facebook and any other social network, a battle that you'd suspect doesn't scale without some incredible bankrolling.
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By informally partnering with Orban and, at the same time, bankrolling the extremist Jobbik party, a xenophobic group to the right of Fidesz, Moscow has two allies in the country: one in the opposition, and one in power.
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Tuleshov has been imprisoned since January but Kazakhstan's National Security Committee accused him in June of inciting and bankrolling a series of protests against land reforms in April and May which forced Nazarbayev to delay the planned changes.
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BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Japan, China and South Korea are bankrolling environmentally destructive coal-fired power plants in Indonesia despite their pledges to reduce climate-changing emissions under the Paris climate deal, analysts told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Where the plot thickens is that LeEco is also bankrolling Faraday Future, the California-based EV startup that has poached hundreds of auto industry staff in recent years and is currently building a $1 billion factory in Nevada.
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Streaming platforms are bankrolling original content and pulling their licensed shows and movies into their own walled gardens, meaning the early days of Netflix and Hulu, where most networks licensed their catalog to one streaming service, are gone.
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Thiel—who, incidentally, is bankrolling a number of lawsuits against Gawker Media, the former parent company of Gizmodo—invested $40 million of his own money in the company, which he saw as providing a bulwark against privacy invasions.
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The 210-year-old Chinese entrepreneur says she is betting that her fledgling Luckin Coffee brand will eventually have more cafes in China than Starbucks, and she has Singapore's sovereign wealth fund and other investors bankrolling her plan.
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"From my perspective, bankrolling it out of my own pocket, there are some releases that are really great, but I don't necessarily think they're the kind of album that someone would want to purchase on vinyl," Reed says.
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After pouring billions of dollars into its Syrian project, buttressing the Assad regime and bankrolling Hezbollah and other Shia militias — and losing 1,000 of its own soldiers —Iran was not about to simply pack up and go home.
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Of course, the government incurred other costs in getting ObamaCare up and running—financing the creation of exchanges, launching its website, bankrolling star-crossed co-ops, promoting enrollment, and undertaking other efforts to implement and hype the law.
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The 42-year-old Chinese entrepreneur says she is betting that her fledgling Luckin Coffee brand will eventually have more cafes in China than Starbucks, and she has Singapore's sovereign wealth fund and other investors bankrolling her plan.
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Several of the tech giants are trying to get on the right side of news history... battling the widespread belief that their products have seriously hurt the news biz... by bankrolling all sorts of new services and initiatives.
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Inspired by Lena Waithe's iconic tweet, I decided to let people who have ever tried to poison my life with their Asian fetish know that they can attempt to make penance by bankrolling my Crazy Rich Asians viewings.
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The big picture: MBS is gambling that he can escape this crisis by doubling down on support for the Trump administration's policies — confronting Iran, making up for lost Iranian oil, and bankrolling U.S. efforts in northeast Syria, among others.
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"I come from money, I'm not going to deny that," added the Geneva resident, when it was suggested he would not be at the team without his father bankrolling his career, but adding that his record spoke for itself.
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Long before the Times revealed the Pentagon's secret UFO program, Bigelow was bankrolling the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), a "living laboratory" on Skinwalker Ranch that represents the largest ever scientific study of unidentified aerial phenomena in history.
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But when Mr. Woolfe, who wants Britain to leave the European Union, last year mistakenly accused the chain, Sainsbury's, of bankrolling those who want to remain in the bloc — using the hashtag #ShameOnYouSainsburys — the company quickly sprang into action.
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Bannon has pledged primary challenges against Republican lawmakers he sees as disloyal to Trump and is seeking to win over establishment donors potentially disappointed with the lack of results after bankrolling organizations led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
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Reuters' analysis of Pacific nation budgets has found China increased its concessional loans over the past decade from almost zero to become the largest financier in the Pacific, bankrolling everything from ports and airports to sports stadiums and boulevards.
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The sanctions goal is to inflict enough pain on the regime in Tehran that it will abandon its policy of bankrolling foreign wars and terrorist organizations, both of which are a forte of the country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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Critics have taken to calling it the Kosmos Cup or the Piqué Cup, references to the investment group headed by Gerard Piqué, Spain's polymathic soccer star, that is largely bankrolling the revamped competition and intending to make a profit.
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It seems that everybody in Hollywood and Washington knew that Weinstein was an abusive person, yet his pals covered it up, because Weinstein made movies pushing a liberal agenda, and more importantly, he was bankrolling liberal causes for years.
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Sport is just one of the ways Saudi Arabia is attempting to show a move away from its conservative image, with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bankrolling several long-term partnerships and attracting some of the world's biggest teams and stars.
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Around 233, he was appointed to the board of Wiking Minerals, a gold mining company owned by Patrick Brinkmann, who was reported to be essentially bankrolling neofascist movements across Europe, according to a 2017 investigation by the German newspaper Der Spiegel.
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The measures targeted more than 20 Russian individuals and organizations, including the Internet Research Agency, a Kremlin-linked troll farm that sought to interfere in the election, and Yevgeny Prigozhin, known as "Putin's chef," for his role in bankrolling Russian hackers.
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Many of them are tech companies, most prominently Google, who say all the right things, but time and again—whether through hiring practices or, in this case, bankrolling hate speech—betray what little regard they have for communities of color.
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In Brazil, businessmen allegedly linked to right-wing candidate Jair Bolsonaro have been bankrolling a campaign to spread fake news in support of the leading far-right presidential candidate by spamming users with fake news via WhatsApp, per The Washington Post.
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This isn't out of character for Thiel, a billionaire who has recently spent a nontrivial amount of money towards political ends, bankrolling several lawsuits against Gawker Media over a personal vendetta, including one that ultimately led to the demise of Gawker.com.
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Turning our legal system into the next hot investing trend raises lots of red flags, from the influence of financiers in lawsuits to the motivations for bankrolling cases—a problem that's made painfully apparent by the Peter Thiel-Gawker case.
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In many ways, Zulawski used the film to escape the heartbreak of the separation, but at the same time he also had to be careful not to tread on the toes of the Communist cultural authorities who were bankrolling the film.
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As a result, the WTO formally authorized the United States to impose tariffs on up to $22020 billion of imports of EU goods - the largest amount ever authorized, to compensate for the EU unfairly bankrolling one of its own companies.
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The Court of Justice of the European Union rejected arguments that the ECB was effectively bankrolling governments with its 2.1 trillion-euro ($2.39 trillion) Public-Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP), which is expected to stop at the end of this month.
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By the time the anti-vaping bill was passed into law, JUUL Labs—the vape powerhouse headquartered in San Francisco—had already put its own plans in motion, bankrolling an initiative called the Coalition for Reasonable Vaping Regulation to combat it.
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Forbes offered no evidence that Thiel is behind the bankrolling of Hogan's case — a fully legal practice called third-party litigation funding — but a few hours later the NYT reported that it had spoken to someone briefed on the arrangement.
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This isn't out of character for Thiel, a billionaire who has recently spent a nontrivial amount of money toward political ends, bankrolling several lawsuits against Gawker Media over a personal vendetta, including one that ultimately led to the demise of Gawker.com.
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Image: APIn a revelation that shouldn't surprise anybody, Peabody Energy, the United States' largest coal company, has been bankrolling think tanks, corporate lobbyists, trade associations, and individual scientists at the heart of the climate denial movement, a new Guardian investigation reveals.
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The man, one of thousands of people who paid $2000,153 for access to the conference, had seemingly broken a sweat tracking down the unassuming booth in search of the man known for bankrolling cryptocurrency start-ups: Silvergate Bank CEO Alan Lane.
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The company has lurked under the radar before its unveiling today — many of its staff haven't updated their LinkedIn profiles with their new roles, for example — and there will be many questions about it, such as which investors are bankrolling it.
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"Uncooperative political committee leaders, bureaucratic bumbling and flaccid fine enforcement efforts all contribute to election law breakers outrunning penalties during a time when campaign shenanigans — from Russian advertisements to government contractors bankrolling super PACs — are increasingly brazen and sophisticated," Levinthal wrote.
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In their reach for global influence, the Thanis have pursued ambidextrous, sometimes contradictory policies — preaching the virtues of peace, education and women's rights while bankrolling Islamist extremists in Syria and hosting the biggest United States military base in the Middle East.
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Nobody Speak covers the Gawker trial in so much detail (and it's necessary, giving the complexity of the case) that Peter Thiel, the mogul who was revealed to be bankrolling Hogan's lawsuit, doesn't even show up until halfway through the film.
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Mr. Bloomberg's intervention is likely to undermine that financial advantage by bankrolling advertising on television, online and in the mail for Democratic candidates in a dozen or more congressional districts, chiefly in moderate suburban areas where Mr. Trump is unpopular.
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He nonetheless fits a certain mold of ambassadors: The founder of a boutique hotel chain, he landed his post after decades of work bankrolling Republican presidential candidates, including John McCain, Mitt Romney and George W. Bush and his brother Jeb Bush.
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Oil accounts for over 90 percent of Venezuela's foreign currency earnings, bankrolling the government, but production has fallen some 36 percent over the past year to 1.2 million barrels per day amid underinvestment, lack of maintenance and a brain drain.
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When it came to Mr. Bloomberg, Ms. Warren seemed to hold nothing back, laying into him for bankrolling her Republican opponent during her first Senate campaign and citing her own story of pregnancy discrimination to bring up an allegation against him.
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While it was an encouraging start, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and partners Kosmos, Barcelona soccer player Gerard Pique's investment company which is bankrolling the event to the tune of $3 billion over 25 years, will need to make tweaks.
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Mr. Trump also promised to pressure Pakistan, which United States officials have long accused of playing a double game in Afghanistan — publicly supporting the United States mission here while secretly bankrolling and giving shelter to the Taliban and other insurgent groups.
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Nobody Speak covers the Gawker trial in so much detail (and it's necessary, given the complexity of the case) that Peter Thiel, the mogul who was revealed to be bankrolling Hogan's lawsuit, doesn't even show up until halfway through the film.
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The Japanese government is bankrolling a $100 million, state-of-the-art R&D center near the nuclear plant where robot operators train on digital models of the reactors in a giant 3-D Holo Stage and on life-size physical mock-ups.
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Reuters' analysis of Pacific nation budgets has found that China ramped up its system of concessional loans over the past decade from almost zero to become the largest financier in the Pacific, bankrolling everything from ports and airports to sports stadiums and boulevards.
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Peter Thiel's campaign to ruin Gawker Media was conceived and orchestrated by a previously unknown associate who served as a middleman, allowing the billionaire to conceal his involvement in the bankrolling of lawsuits that eventually drove the New York media outlet into bankruptcy.
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We're all getting much older before we get a chance to have our friends and families buy us a bunch of highly necessary but obscenely expensive household shit, essentially bankrolling our transition into adulthood under the auspices of an antiquated heteronormative tradition.
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Yet if the ban on electoral politics were lifted for 22019(c)(3) entities, then houses of worship and charities could become "super dark money groups" that offer donors not only anonymity for bankrolling electoral activity, but also a charitable tax deduction.
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The memo was misleadingly silent with regards to any other evidence presented to the FISA judge beyond the Steele dossier, and there are now press reports that the judge was aware of the political motivation behind those bankrolling Steele, directly contradicting the memo.
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Just kidding, but only kind of: Casper, the startup which sells high-tech memory foam and latex mattresses, went to war with at least three online mattress review sites before bankrolling an effort to acquire one of them, Recode reported this weekend.
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The Democratic National Committee is bankrolling 10 new organizers who will specifically target minority voters who did not turn out for the April special election that sent Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel to the runoff for Georgia's 6th District House seat.
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The Obama administration last year and now the Trump administration this year have strongly criticized China for bankrolling the overexpansion of its steel and aluminum industries, contending that the loans have made it hard for steel and aluminum companies elsewhere to compete.
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Dan Azzi, advanced leadership fellow at Harvard University, compares the economy to a "cartoon world," propped up by, what he calls, the "financial engineering" of a banking system that threw its weight into keeping the currency afloat, and bankrolling artificially lavish lifestyles.
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In conservative circles, the pitchforks have been out for tech since at least the 2016 election season, with far-right media organizations like Breitbart and Project Veritas accusing the industry and its leaders of silencing Republican voices, advocating for open borders, and bankrolling Democratic campaigns.
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RELATED: Charter schools controversy will only grow under Trump Warren lambasted DeVos in the scathing letter for a lack of public education experience, arguing her only experience with education was through her "deep record of political activism, bankrolling and lobbying for policies" she supported.
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"So the next time you think of all the disastrous policies that have been foisted on the people of New York, you can thank Donald Trump for bankrolling those efforts," Cruz said, name-checking New York politicians that Trump has financially backed such as Rep.
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President Trump has made the correct and clear-sighted decision that the United States should not be bankrolling a regime that makes it perfectly clear that it wants to kill Americans and that is directly responsible for the lion's share of American casualties in Iraq.
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They leverage their partners' connections, experience, and track record to raise millions of dollars every two or three years in a "fund" from what are called limited partners — institutions or individuals that are supposed to have "limited" operational influence in the firm, beyond bankrolling it.
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Billionaire Tom Steyer AGE: 62 STATE: California KNOWN FOR: Steyer, whose net worth reached $1.6 billion this year according to Forbes, has operated as a funding force in Democratic politics in recent years, bankrolling candidates and organizations that promote liberal causes, including the impeachment of Trump.
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Both Luckey and Thiel (who hit headlines last year for bankrolling Hulk Hogan's lawsuit in a bid to bring down Gawker), have distinguished themselves over the past few years as some of the few big Silicon Valley figures willing to publicly support Republican candidates and politics.
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Nobody Speak carefully brings in former employees (including Gawker founder Nick Denton) and lawyers from the case, covering the Gawker trial in so much detail that Peter Thiel, the mogul who was revealed to be bankrolling Hogan's lawsuit, doesn't even show up until halfway through the film.
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Late on Friday, the official Legal Daily published two commentaries on its website saying those involved in Fengrui had challenged state security and the political system, and criticized Western countries for hyping up the issue for their own purposes and accused them of bankrolling rights lawyers.
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Among the scores of astronomers and researchers working tirelessly to uncover these enigmatic signals is an eccentric Russian-Israeli billionaire who, in his relentless hunt for extraterrestrial life, has ended up partly bankrolling one of the most complex and far-reaching scans of our universe ever attempted.
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Today, the Trump administration said it would continue a program that gives funding to Planned Parenthood, cities are suing the Trump administration over its "sabotage" of the health law, and we take a look at the liberal group bankrolling Medicaid expansion ballot measures in red states.
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At 287 feet tall, the foul-mouthed blonde must have stood out darting across the Middle East interviewing Taliban fighters and drug smugglers for her book, Seeds of Terror, which made the case that the opium trade and criminal activity were bankrolling Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
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" By bankrolling studies, cultivating mutually beneficial relationships with psychopharmacologists at prestigious universities like Harvard and laundering its marketing messages through trusted agencies like the World Health Organization, the pharmaceutical industry created what Schwarz aptly terms "a self-affirming circle of science, one that quashed all dissent.
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I think he shows part of the sham that's at the heart of Silicon Valley, which is that he masquerades as a libertarian while bankrolling and promoting a candidate who has both authoritarian tendencies and also is a crony capitalist who's exploited the state throughout his career.
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At the dizzying pace small- and large-dollar donors are bankrolling their favorite hopefuls, many Democrats could have the financial wherewithal — and even pressure from their backers — to campaign deep into the primary calendar, dramatically increasing the odds no candidate will capture a majority by the convention.
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Mr. Price spent lavishly to bring Woody Allen to Amazon, bankrolling "Wonder Wheel" for $25 million; it collected $1.4 million at the domestic box office in December, most likely hurt by renewed scrutiny of allegations that Mr. Allen molested his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow in 1992.
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He was presented to Trotsky as Frank Jacson, a Canadian businessman bankrolling the French Trotskyists back in Paris — and of course by the summer of 1940 there was no way to verify this information with the French Trotskyists, who were on the run from the invading Germans.
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The apocalypse is coming, and it's being hastened by forces like Ed Balq, the local mogul and business owner who donates megabucks to Abundant Life and, because he is bankrolling the First Reformed 250th anniversary "re-consecration" service, demands there not be "anything political" during the ceremony.
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Nobody is arguing that Putin is a great guy or that many of his foreign policies — for instance, supporting and bankrolling a separatist proto-state in Eastern Ukraine and leasing out Russia's Air Force on behalf of the Assad regime — have been central impediments to a decent working partnership.
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The Russian company, which was accused by the special counsel of bankrolling a vast online campaign to influence the 2016 election, argued Mueller does not have the power he has used in the executive branch because he is not appointed by the President nor confirmed by the Senate.
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Last week, he falsely accused the actor Leonardo DiCaprio of bankrolling fires in the Amazon, and for months he has also dismissed Indigenous people's concerns about increasing invasions of protected land by loggers and miners, even as Indigenous groups have pleaded with the government for protection from growing violence.
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Stephen M. Ross, the real estate developer and principal owner of the Miami Dolphins, flew to Paris this month to speak with leaders of Europe's most powerful soccer clubs, teams that have benefited from the billionaire's largess in bankrolling a summer tournament in the United States and beyond.
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In the zeal to follow consumers wherever they may roam on the internet, advertisers now risk bankrolling sites that are toxic to society, whether by amplifying manufactured political stories or by spreading conspiracy theories virulent enough to drive a man to walk into a Washington pizzeria with a gun.
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Thiel's financial involvement wasn't revealed until after a judge determined that Gawker owed $140 million to the former pro wrestler for publishing one of his sex tapes and an accompanying article, and Thiel hasn't spoken publicly about bankrolling the lawsuit aside from a single interview with The New York Times.
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But with an enviable head start, rapidly growing market share, and an increasingly lucrative launch services business bankrolling SpaceX's ambitions—not to mention a President with a penchant for the grandiose in the White House—Musk's optimism surrounding a future manned Mars mission seems less extreme than it did last year.
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The most prominent of these is its attempt to become a force in the automotive industry, which we first heard about at CES this January with the extraordinarily hyped launch of Faraday Future's concept vehicle — LeEco is bankrolling the US company and is on board as a technology and content partner.
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China a leading player China has invested heavily in gene-editing technology, bankrolling research into a number of world "firsts," including the first use of the gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 in humans in 2016 and the first reported use of gene-editing technology to modify nonviable human embryos in 2015.
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What is now established is that the bankrolling of the intelligence firm's investigation changed from one political party to another in April 2016, before Christopher Steele, a former British MI6 officer, was subcontracted by Fusion GPS to conduct a deep dive into the Eastern tilt of Trump's financial and personal behavior.
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The coal company's involvement in resident opposition to the project was unearthed last week in documents filed with the Ohio Power Siting Board that showed that the company was bankrolling anti-Icebreaker consultants and paying for the lawyers of at least two local residents who had testified against the project.
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Netflix's pragmatism in bankrolling such revivals nevertheless contains a whiff of cynicism, inasmuch as it's so obviously designed to bolster the "If you just watched" part of its algorithm, while exploiting a media sphere that increasingly caters to the passions of small fan bases, in essence serving as its eager marketing partner.
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But he doesn't and he hasn't -- yet -- and the time will surely come when even the diehard supporters notice that at the same time as the Republican Party wants to cut programs on the pretext of saving money, it appears fine with bankrolling the President's downtime to a sum that would make Nero blush.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE is reportedly planning on bankrolling super-PACs that would oppose Gov.
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The Times also found that Definers reached out to reporters to share research about Diamond and Silk, conservative media personalities who have complained that Facebook restricts their free speech, and to suggest that George Soros, the wealthy Democratic donor who is often attacked by members of the far right, was bankrolling anti-Facebook protestors.
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"It's about getting numbers, and Ben was trying to do the same thing." photo of human A photo posted by BEN PASTERNAK (@benpasternak) on Nov 25, 2015 at 2:07pm PST Lest you think the Pasternaks are bankrolling all Ben's hopes and dreams, Mark claimed he hasn't provided a dime to his son for his projects.
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Chelsea Soros Clinton Right-wing activists have accused Soros, who frequently supports liberal causes, of bankrolling anti-President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE demonstrations, including at his inauguration.
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Supporters, on the other hand, see his many confrontations as confirming his "American First" program in which his administration is working to reset relations in ways that are fairer to the U.S. For decades, the United States has been the willing underwriter of friends and foes, propping up the world's institutions and bankrolling peace initiatives in the far reaches of the globe.
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Last week's debate in Las Vegas was the first in which former New York Mayor Michael BloombergMichael Rubens BloombergGiuliani: Bloomberg 'jeopardized' stop and frisk by 'overusing it' Bloomberg calls on Trump to implement firearm background checks The Hill's Campaign Report: Gloves off in South Carolina MORE, who, like Steyer, is bankrolling an advertising-heavy campaign using his personal wealth, appeared.
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Last week, 22019 members of Congress signed onto a letter announcing a shift in policy not only to stop bankrolling Immigration and Customs Enforcement's unrelenting requests for funding increases, but also to look at ways to defund ICE, one of our government's most bloated and overwrought agencies when it comes to a lack of accountability, transparency or integrity in spending precious tax dollars.
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While the spending is in line with Bloomberg's backing of Democratic causes for years, the new round of funding also appears to serve distinct political purposes: endearing himself to Democrats who are wary of his possible late entry into the 2020 race and assuaging concerns that his impending presidential campaign would divert funds away from the Democratic causes he's been bankrolling.
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Strange decisions by lawyers suggested outside funding But now, two months after the judge made the decision that not only Gawker Media but specific employees of the company had to pay Hogan hundreds of millions in damages, Gawker founder Nick Denton has indicated that there may have been the shadowy hand of a Silicon Valley billionaire bankrolling the case, perhaps one with a grudge against his company.
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The umbrella group behind the deregulation push is being funded by Switch, a publicly traded company that operates massive data centers that sit on millions of square feet of warehouse space in Las Vegas and Reno; and by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, the casino conglomerate owned and run by Adelson, a billionaire who has long been involved in bankrolling Republican candidates and causes.
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Two months later, he was in Saudi Arabia, meeting with Mr. Grine and the crown prince about business opportunities there, according to A.M.I. And by January, Mr. Pecker was confident enough about his growing rapport with Saudi investors that he sought their help bankrolling a possible acquisition of Time magazine, which he had long coveted, according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks.
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The enemies of unfettered journalism in the United States these days include prosecutors crying "national security" in hot pursuit of leakers; a presidential candidate who vows, if elected, to "open up" the libel laws so that when journalists offend "we can sue them and win lots of money"; and, in one bizarre case, a vengeful Silicon Valley billionaire bankrolling lawsuits aimed at driving an impertinent website out of business.
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In no particular order: the severely abused child, who kills because of excessive abuse and/or neglect; the dangerously antisocial offender, who does so for selfish reasons, like money; the enraged, sometimes those addicted to drugs and alcohol, who lash out, perhaps, because a parent has stopped bankrolling them; and the severely mentally ill, who might be delusional and might think, say, the devil is demanding their mother or father as a sacrifice.
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And when those same bankers that (instead of industrial profits) were bankrolling the welfare state picked up the phone and said to Schröder, or to Blair or to Brown or whoever, "we need a few hundred billion or there will be no functioning ATMs tomorrow", at that point the social democrats in power lacked both the analytical power to understand what was going on and the moral courage to oppose their bid to be bailed out along with their institutions.
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There are quite a few startups with this exact pitch, Range's key advantage seem to sit with their founding team, which is helmed by Medium's former head of engineering Dan Pupius, Jennifer Dennard (people ops at Medium) and Braden Kowitz, who was a design partner at GV. The company has used their network to build out an early network of customers, including teams at Twitter, Carta and Mozilla, as well as a network of VCs that are bankrolling their efforts.
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In an interview with CNBC, former London Mayor Johnson said that he rejected Dimon's claims about potential job losses, adding that the EU's economic policies had hurt living standards in the U.K. due to the twin effects of the euro currency and what he called "uncontrolled migration" across countries in the EU. "Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan are the very people I recall - I mean they're bankrolling the Remain campaign - and they are the very people who urged this country to embed itself in the euro, which has turned out to be an absolute catastrophe," Johnson said in the Saturday interview.
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