Wes Perry Was in his Las Vegas hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino when a gunman, a few rooms away, smashed his own room’s window and opened fire. Fans were gathered across the Las Vegas Strip at a country-music festival. It was Oct. 1, 2017, the final night of the Route 91 Harvest festival, and headliner Jason Aldean had just started singing his hit “When She Says Baby.” The rampage went on for 10 minutes, killing 58 people and injuring more than 850. It is considered the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.
- 9/21/2022
- by Jonathan Bernstein and Mark Gray
- Rollingstone.com
The News Corp. baron and the former veep are forming a conspiracy Voltron with a shale oil exploration company in Israel and Colorado, betting it will do serious business--and even transform Murdoch's media empire.
Rupert Murdoch is one of the world's best known media barons and may or may not be a bud to Steve Jobs. But as hype swelled around his iPad digital project, The Daily, Murdoch was also investing in an Israeli-American oil shale company with ties to Dick Cheney. Can his legendary business savvy help out an upstart oil firm?
Oil shale may be the answer to worries about peak oil, but it is highly expensive to extract and has a high ecological cost.
Lord Jacob Rothschild and Murdoch just purchased a joint 5.5% stake in Genie Oil and Gas Inc., a division of the Idt Corporation. The equity stake purchase by Murdoch and Rothschild is worth approximately $11 million.
Rupert Murdoch is one of the world's best known media barons and may or may not be a bud to Steve Jobs. But as hype swelled around his iPad digital project, The Daily, Murdoch was also investing in an Israeli-American oil shale company with ties to Dick Cheney. Can his legendary business savvy help out an upstart oil firm?
Oil shale may be the answer to worries about peak oil, but it is highly expensive to extract and has a high ecological cost.
Lord Jacob Rothschild and Murdoch just purchased a joint 5.5% stake in Genie Oil and Gas Inc., a division of the Idt Corporation. The equity stake purchase by Murdoch and Rothschild is worth approximately $11 million.
- 11/23/2010
- by Neal Ungerleider
- Fast Company
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