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Articles by Levi Brackman
Business & Finance
How making money can fix the world A human being is a creature that looks at what is and sees the value of what could be. But how does this creature know? And from where does this new value come? In the wake of the latest business scandals in the news, let's go ahead and ask the real question that sits in the back of the head of every businessman with a conscience: Is business inherently at odds with ethics?
Housing In America Is Broken And Make The Rich Richer And The Poor Poorer
Housing in America feeds financial inequality, and as someone who has spent two years immersed in commercial real estate, I have seen this firsthand. The current system necessitates wealthy investors to pool funds to purchase apartment buildings or single-family rental communities. Lower-income people then pay rent to live in these properties. A portion of the rent paid by less well-off renters goes to wealthier investors as distributions.
Invown Innovated to Make RE & Startup Fundraising Affordable
Invown, an SEC-registered Funding Portal initially focused on real estate, is expanding its cost effective Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF), Regulation D, and Regulation A fundraising platform, previously only available to real estate sponsors, to businesses and startups across all industries.
Top Muslim body warns new Muhammad cartoons will 'stir hatred'
CAIRO — Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam’s most prestigious center of learning, on Tuesday warned that new cartoons published by French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo will only serve to “stir up hatred.” The drawings “do not serve the peaceful coexistence between peoples and hinders the integration of Muslims into European and Western societies,” the Cairo-based body’s Islamic research center added in a statement.
Kerry in Geneva for fresh nuke talks with Iran
GENEVA — US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Geneva Tuesday for talks with his Iranian counterpart on how to speed up nuclear negotiations as a March target date approaches to conclude a deal. Kerry arrived in Geneva late in the day and is to meet Wednesday with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif. A new round of nuclear negotiations between Iran, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany, the so called P5+1, is to begin in Geneva on Thursday.
Gaza deadliest place for UN civilian staff in 2014
At least 61 people working for the United Nations were killed in 2014 — up from 58 in 2013 and 37 in 2012 — the UN Staff Union said Tuesday, fingering Gaza as the deadliest locale for civilian workers. The Staff Union said Tuesday that last year’s victims included 33 peacekeepers, 16 civilians, nine contractors and three consultants. Mali was the deadliest place for UN personnel, with 28 peacekeepers killed in the volatile north between June and October, it said.
Rally against Islamophobia draws 10,000 in Germany
BERLIN — German President Joachim Gauck told the country’s Muslim community Tuesday that “we are all Germany” at a rally to condemn the Paris jihadist attacks and take a stand against rising Islamophobia. About 10,000 citizens, religious leaders and politicians, among them Chancellor Angela Merkel, joined the event, which started with a wreath-laying ceremony at the French embassy and an imam reciting Koranic verses condemning the taking of life.
Islamic State video purports to show child executioner
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Islamic State jihadist group released a video on Tuesday purporting to show a young boy executing two men accused of working for Russian intelligence services. The video shows the two men apparently being shot dead by the child after being interrogated on camera about their alleged attempts to infiltrate IS in Syria.
French lawmakers vote to extend air campaign in Iraq
PARIS, France — French lawmakers on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved continuing air strikes against Islamic State jihadists in Iraq as part of a US-led coalition.
Shooting at Kosher market in eastern Paris
Fresh shooting broke out in eastern Paris on Friday, with reports that an armed man had taken a hostage at a kosher grocery store, a source told AFP. The gunman was suspected of being the same man who killed a policewoman in southern Paris on Thursday, who is thought to have links to the assailants who stormed satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday. At least one person was injured. Police, firefighters, and emergency personnel are at the scene.
Timeline of the Charlie Hebdo attack and manhunt
PARIS, France — A snapshot of developments since Wednesday’s attack on French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people died and 11 were injured, in the deadliest attack in France in half a century. – Two men armed with Kalashnikov rifles storm the Paris offices of the Charlie Hebdo weekly at around 11:30 a.m. (10:30 GMT). – They kill a cleaning man initially identified as a receptionist before shooting eight journalists, a police officer protecting cartoonist Charb, and a visitor.
Lapid: US veto at Security Council no longer assured
Finance Minister Yair Lapid said Saturday that ties between Israel and the US have reached such a nadir that the US’s assistance at the UN Security Council — including using its right to veto anti-Israel resolutions — was no longer assured. “We are at an unprecedented low point in our ties with the US. No one knows what they will do when Abu Mazen [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas] goes to the Security Council.
Ashkelon mayor bars Arab workers, drawing racism charges
The mayor of Ashkelon said Wednesday he would freeze construction of bomb shelters in kindergartens, in order to keep Arab-Israeli workers away from schools in the southern city. Itamar Shimoni quickly came under fire after announcing via Facebook he would cut off construction of shelters at any kindergarten where Arab workers were employed and also order the posting of armed guards outside kindergartens near building sites that employed Arab construction workers.
Jordanian MPs hold moment of silence for two Palestinian terrorists
Jordanian parliament members held a moment of silence and read Koran verses aloud Wednesday in memory of the two Palestinian terrorists who murdered five Israelis in an attack at a Jerusalem synagogue Tuesday morning.
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