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Warren Buffett Lines Up His Biggest Buy Yet With $30bn Acquisition

Warren Buffett Lines Up His Biggest Buy Yet With $30bn Acquisition wochit Business Warren Buffett, the octogenarian multibillionaire investor, is homing in on his biggest acquisition – a maker of aircraft parts and energy production equipment that is likely to cost his Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate more than $30bn (£19bn).Berkshire Hathaway is said to be close to an agreement to buy Precision Castparts Corp in Buffett’s latest foray into the industrial sector. Precision Castparts, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, was valued at $26.7bn on Friday.

Art and Social Change: Creative Time Summit at Venice Biennale Features Artists and Democracy

Art and Social Change: Creative Time Summit at Venice Biennale Feat... Democracy Now! http://democracynow.org - As part of the Venice Biennale, the oldest and most prestigious international art exhibition, a New York-based group, Creative Time, is hosting a three-day summit dubbed "The Curriculum." Speakers include Afghan President Ashraf Ghani with his daughter, the artist Mariam Ghani, members of Spain’s left coalition Podemos, as well as the famed Italian political philosopher and activist Antonio Negri. We speak with organizers Anne Pasternak, the new president of Brooklyn Museum, and president and artistic director of Creative Time; and Nato Thompson, chief curator of Creative Time and author of the new book, "Seeing Power: Socially Engaged Art in the Age of Cultural Production."

Art & Protests at the Venice Biennale Highlight Labor Conditions, Climate Change and Austerity

Art & Protests at the Venice Biennale Highlight Labor Conditions, C... Democracy Now! http://democracynow.org - We are broadcasting from Venice, Italy, the site of the Venice Biennale, the oldest and most prestigious international art exhibition, where this year’s theme is "All the World’s Futures." The gathering has not been without controversy. In May, Venice shut down Iceland’s pavilion after the artist Christoph Büchel, working in collaboration with the Muslim communities of Venice and Iceland, turned a 10th century church that had been closed down for 40 years into a working mosque. Police claimed the art project was a "threat to public safety." Last week, the Gulf Labor Coalition staged an hour-long occupation of the second floor of the Israeli Pavilion. The group has also protested the use of migrant laborers to build Guggenheim’s new museum in Abu Dhabi. We discuss past and present protests at the Biennale with Marco Baravalle, a Venice-based artist, activist and author who spoke at a panel discussion organized by the Gulf Labor Coalition

No More Torture: World’s Largest Psychologists Group Bans Role in National Security Interrogations

No More Torture: World’s Largest Psychologists Group Bans Role in N... Democracy Now! http://democracynow.org - By a nearly unanimous vote, the American Psychological Association’s Council of Representatives voted Friday to adopt a new policy barring psychologists from participating in national security interrogations. The resolution also puts the APA on the side of international law by barring psychologists from working at Guantánamo, CIA black sites and other settings deemed illegal under the Geneva Conventions or the U.N. Convention Against Torture, unless they are working directly for the persons being detained or for an independent third party working to protect human rights. The vote came at the APA’s first convention since the release of a report confirming the APA leadership actively colluded with the Pentagon and the CIA torture programs. The sole dissenter was retired Col. Larry James, former top Army intelligence psychologist at Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib

What Uber (and Taxi) Drivers Think About the Politics of Ride Sharing

What Uber (and Taxi) Drivers Think About the Politics of Ride Sharing ReasonTV Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar are all part of the ridesharing economy loved by urban-dwelling millennials and distrusted by Democratic politicians like Hillary Clinton and NYC mayor Bill de Blasio, taxi cab associations, and Salon.com headline writers. A California administrative court recently ruled that Uber must pay a hefty fine and share more of its data with state regulators or shut down. So, Reason TV's Zach Weissmueller spent a day riding around Los Angeles in Ubers, talking to drivers about some of the rumors swirling around the company: That it doesn't pay its drivers well, that it runs shoddy background checks that put riders at risk, and that its drivers fail to pick up people in bad neighborhoods. He also made a stop at Yellow Cab headquarters to talk with William Rouse, the general manager of Yellow Cab Los Angeles and an outspoken critic of Uber. And for his final leg of the journey, Weissmueller jumped into a good old-fashioned yellow taxi.

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