Category: private

Arconic Taken Private by Apollo Global in $5.2 Billion Deal

Aluminum maker Arconic is being taken private by Apollo Global Management in a deal worth approximately $5.2 billion. Arconic shareholders will receive $30 per share in cash. Arconic is the company once known as Alcoa. Alcoa Inc. spun off its alumina and bauxite operations in 2016 into a company called Alcoa Corp., while Arconic became…


Gumshoe (1971)

Albert Finney plays the protagonist of a bingo game who, bored with his mundane life, takes out a newspaper ad offering his services as a private investigator, and Finney soon finds himself involved in a series of conspiracies and counterplots. Credit: Public Domain Movies …


Lady of the Night (1925)

Chris Helmer is sentenced to 20 years in prison by Judge Banning, and has to leave his wife and baby girl. By coincidence, the judge has a daughter about the same age. Eighteen years later, the two now motherless young women graduate, Florence Banning from an exclusive private school, Molly Helmer from reform school. Molly…


Private Sector Delegates Halved at 20th Congress, Sign of Xi Implementing New Planned Economy Model

Commentary At the recently concluded 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the number of representatives of private entrepreneurs was reduced by nearly half from the already small number 10 years ago—the latest sign that China’s economic system is moving back toward a planned economy version 2.0, a modern model echoing the Mao era….


Apollo-Led Group to Take Atlas Air Private for $3 Billion

Air-freight company Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc. is being taken private for nearly $3 billion by an investor group led by private equity giant Apollo Global Management Inc.. The agreement announced on Thursday offers $102.50 for each share of Atlas Air, a premium of 35 percent to the company’s closing price on Friday before media…


Elon Musk Says Will Try His Best to Retain Twitter Shareholders’ Stake in New Private Company

Elon Musk’s offer to take Twitter Inc. private has stirred apprehensions all around. Twitter users are worried about whether they can operate on the platform without being abused and bullied for holding differing opinions, while shareholders are worried about whether they would be adequately compensated for the stake they hold in the company. What Happened Allaying some of…


SpaceX Launches 3 Visitors to Space Station for $55 Million Each

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—SpaceX launched three rich businessmen and their astronaut escort to the International Space Station on Friday for more than a week’s stay, as NASA joins Russia in hosting guests at the world’s most expensive tourist destination. It’s SpaceX’s first private charter flight to the orbiting lab after two years of carrying astronauts there…


First Private Astronaut Mission to Space Station Readies for Launch

The International Space Station (ISS) is set to become busier than usual this week when its crew welcomes aboard four new colleagues from Houston-based startup Axiom Space, the first all-private astronaut team ever flown to the orbiting outpost. The launch is being hailed by the company, NASA, and other industry players as a turning point…


[Premiering at 7:30PM] WHO Plot for Globalist Control, and Vaccine Passport End-Game: Nick Corbishley

A proposal at the World Health Organization (WHO) would give it the power to manage a future health crisis or pandemic, globally, including with powers to sanction. According to Nick Corbishley, author of “Scanned: Why Vaccine Passports and Digital IDs Will Mean the End of Privacy and Personal Freedom,” under this policy the WHO will be…


PREMIERING NOW: WHO Plot for Globalist Control, and Vaccine Passport End-Game: Nick Corbishley

A proposal at the World Health Organization (WHO) would give it the power to manage a future health crisis or pandemic, globally, including with powers to sanction. According to Nick Corbishley, author of “Scanned: Why Vaccine Passports and Digital IDs Will Mean the End of Privacy and Personal Freedom,” under this policy the WHO will be…