GP ordered contract killing via ‘Chechen mob’ website

Only in America …. Oh wait Dorset!

Peter Jackson is remastering old WWI film footage

Awesome idea … Even more awesome results.

A good rule of thumb in business, and in life generally, is that if you find yourself defending Holocaust deniers, you’ve probably taken a wrong turn somewhere.

Cloudflare launches the Athenian Project to protect election websites

Now we’re talkin'

In case you still need a reason to not ride with Uber ….

Uber partners with Cargo to help drivers make money by selling stuff to riders

… You’re welcome.

Tables Turned

Chance the Rapper bought local Chicago news site Chicagoist

… Or at least ‘flipped’.

Britain’s seaside shelters – in pictures

1. The variety, beauty and legacy that these ‘tiny buildings’ bring to the UK’s seaside resorts is amazing.

2. We have a lot of coast line and be darned if the crappy weather is going to stop us celebrating the seas that surround us.

Zuckerberg defends allowing InfoWars, Holocaust deniers on Facebook

”Zuckerberg, who is Jewish, said even Holocaust deniers have a place on the platform as long as they genuinely believe the content they share.”

… but Alex Jones says he doesn’t believe the content he shares.

Private-Equity Firm Silver Lake Offers to Invest $500 Million in iHeartMedia

… translation iHeartMedia is dead on the vines but Silverlake have worked out how to extract a billion, minimum, from it before they kill it off.

Remember this? … here’s more about it …

On Tuesday, July 10, the DOJ announced a landmark settlement with Austin-based Defense Distributed, a controversial startup led by a young, charismatic anarchist whom Wired once named one of the 15 most dangerous people in the world.

Mandalay Bay hotel owner sues more than 1000 victims of the Vegas gunman

Filed under ‘Not The Onion’

Trump appears to back Putin over US intelligence agencies.

“Appears to” …. maybe the Chronicle should get a dictionary out.

… Trump plans to build mass detention facilities, which could fast be turned into concentration camps to hold opponents of Trump policies.”

David Cay Johnston

I don’t personally find DCJ alarmist or extreme in his views and opinions … but this is a sobering piece

Alex Salmond’s RT show ‘misled’ viewers, watchdog rules

Nothing like that would ever happen in America …. not the misleading part, I mean the watchdog part.