A recent survey conducted by Morgan Stanley found that almost half of the consumers, about 46%, have bought clothes on Amazon in the last year, making it the second most popular retailer for clothing purchases after Walmart, which had a 60% rate. Furthermore, the frequency of purchasing clothing from Amazon appears to be increasing, with … Read more
Whites can’t restore their civilization? On Sunday, King retweeted a political cartoon featuring Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician whose anti-Muslim rhetoric and blown-out hairstyle have drawn plenty of comparisons to Donald Trump. The cartoon depicts Wilders, chairman of the far-right Party for Freedom and a member of the Dutch parliament, plugging a hole in … Read more
Earlier this month, Prabhjot Singh sat down with his 4-year-old son Hukam and tried for the first time to explain the horrific incident that altered the Manhattan family’s life. “A few years ago, a few men hurt me because of what I looked like, because they thought I was bad,” Singh said. Hukam stared back, … Read more
Slaughtering Cows In India Could Result In Life Sentence India Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat on Friday increased the punishment for cow slaughter from seven years to life imprisonment as Hindu hardliners push for tougher protections for the holy animal. Under the stiffened penalties passed by Gujarat’s state assembly, anyone caught transporting … Read more
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has exited the smartphone business for the time being, and at least one exec there says it’s no big deal. “The phone is already dead,” Alex Kipman, the inventor of Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality glasses, told Bloomberg in an interview. “People just haven’t realized.” The statement might come as a surprise to … Read more
JAKARTA, Indonesia — In mid-February, Muhammad al-Khaththath, leader of the hard-line Muslim Community Forum, held court on the top floor of a Jakarta fast-food joint. With key deputies gathered around, he explained the direction in which he hoped to push relatively secular, democratic Indonesia. Sharia would become the law of the land, non-Muslims would lose … Read more
Warren Buffett thinks retail in America is going through a huge transition. At the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, Buffett said there is clearly pain for retailers as they adjust to the growth of online shopping. “The department store is online now,” Buffett said, noting that the shift could be hard to grapple with for the … Read more
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a major policy change yesterday that will likely have broad and real consequences for people of color around the country. At a meeting of state attorneys general on Tuesday, Sessions said that the Justice Department would “pull back” on the federal scrutiny of police departments for civil rights violations against … Read more
By Tom McGregor, CNTV Panview Commentator Just two months ago, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stood below 30 percent in popularity polls and faced a tidal wave of scandals over alleged cronyism. But times have changed and Abe is now enjoying the stronger support and poised to call for snap elections to run for re-election and win … Read more
MH17 prosecutor open to theory another plane shot down the airliner Dutch prosecutors investigating the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 believe that a ground-to-air missile attack is the most likely scenario. Still, they are not ruling out the possibility that the aircraft might have been shot down from the air. The Russian government has … Read more
