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Prominent corporations from around the world are bankrolling the “defund the police” movement, a Daily Caller News Foundation review found. Companies including Cisco, Clif Bar, Degree, DoorDash, DropBox, H&M and Pokemon announced donations to organizations that seek to defund the police. Black Lives Matter Global Network and Color of Change are open about their desire to defund the police. Both organizations have received an outpouring of corporate donations in recent months. Dozens of corporations from around the world have collectively donated millions of dollars to left-wing organizations that advocate for defunding America’s police departments, a Daily Caller News Foundation review...

Crazed mobs of people belonging to a militant socialist political party called the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) spent Saturday morning vandalizing H&M stores at malls across South Africa over a monkey sweatshirt advertisement that the internet deemed to be “racist.”The EFF is currently the third-largest party in both houses of the South African parliament.A declaration from the EFF states that the party “draws inspiration from the broad Marxist–Leninist tradition and Fanonian schools of thought in their analyses of the state, imperialism, culture and class contradictions in every society.” The party has been repeatedly accused of racism against people who are...

The lesson to be learned from Sweden of today (a nation lead by a - predominantely - Conservative government) is that during a global finacial crises, a government brave enough to sell off some formerly nationalized businesses to the free market could finance tax cuts and pay off national debt. I guess this is preferable to one striving to take on hefty loans in order to try and save unhealthy companies and launch costly health care reforms. But, it's not for me to say in the case of America, as I'm not a citizen of that country (although I sure...

Population: 9.2 million Citizens among the 20 richest persons on Earth: 2 We Swedes might be awfully PC as well as awfully overtaxed, but at least we know something about running companies.. The secret behind our success: we tax private income and consumption, not our companies and we don't believe in having huge national deficits. The article: "The family which owns clothing giant Hennes & Mauritz is now on a par with the Swedish state as the largest shareholder on the Stockholm stock exchange. Shares in H&M have shot up 20 percent since the start of the year, giving the...

Swedish clothing retailer Hennes & Mauritz has been given the all clear to open an outlet on the swish shopping street Champs-Élysées. H & M beat off the vociferous objections of Paris city council. France's top administrative court, the State Council, rejected an appeal by Paris city council which moved in January to block a store licence granted to the retailer, according to deputy Paris mayor Lyne Cohen-Solal. "We are completely powerless" to stop the spread of big chain stores on what is touted as the most beautiful avenue in the world, she said. The city has now exhausted all...

Swedish clothing retailer Hennes and Mauritz has decided not to use Kate Moss in its forthcoming advertising campaign, after photographs of the supermodel snorting cocaine appeared in the British press last week. "After having considered the situation, we have decided to cancel the planned campaign," said Liv Asarnoj, press officer at HM. "It is not compatible with our clear opposition to drugs," she told Expressen. Moss was due to model a range of clothes designed by Stella McCartney in preparation for the collection's launch in November. But images of her, taken in a London recording studio, dividing a pile of...