The Daily Populous

Wednesday June 6th, 2018 day edition

image for Tesla shareholders reject bid to strip Musk of chairman role

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has rebuffed a shareholder attempt to overhaul the electric car maker's board and strip him of his role as chairman, despite worries about the company's shaky finances and inability to meet its production goals for its first mass-market sedan.

Directors Antonio Gracias, James Murdoch and Elon's brother, Kimbal Musk, won by "a wide margin," according to Tesla.

The company said a "supermajority" of shareholders also rejected a proposal to force Musk to step down as Tesla's chairman, a position he has held since 2004 — four years before he also assumed the CEO job.

Elon Musk holds a 22 percent stake in Tesla, increasing the degree of difficulty for shareholders trying to challenge his authority.

After the results were announced, he sought to reassure shareholders attending the meeting and others watching on a webcast.

After conceding that "staying alive" is difficult in the auto industry, Musk told shareholders that Tesla will be "cash flow positive" during the second half of this year.

If Musk is correct, the prediction will translate into Tesla bringing in more cash than it's spending in both the third and fourth quarters. »

Press briefing note on Egypt, United States and Ethiopia

Authored by ohchr.org

The use of immigration detention and family separation as a deterrent runs counter to human rights standards and principles.

These latest developments are positive indications, and our Regional UN Human Rights Office for East Africa remains ready to help continue to advance the promotion and protection of human rights in Ethiopia.

This year, 2018, is the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the UN on 10 December 1948. »

E-Mails Show FCC Made Up DDOS Attack To Downplay The 'John Oliver Effect'

Authored by techdirt.com

When Oliver revisited the topic last May to discuss Trump FCC boss Ajit Pai's myopic plan to kill those same rules, the FCC website crashed under the load a second time.

"Beginning on Sunday night at midnight, our analysis reveals that the FCC was subject to multiple distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDos).

In short, the FCC appears to have completely concocted a fake DDOS attack in a ham-fisted effort to try and downplay the massive public opposition to its extremely-unpopular policies. »

Keanu Reeves Learns Judo and Jujitsu for His New Movie John Wick

Authored by blackbeltmag.com

In it, Reeves returns to the mentality that transformed him into a martial arts hero with his “Neo” performance in The Matrix (1999).

In John Wick, however, everything is personal, and that’s what makes the film and the fights work.

As I mentioned in my blog about Jupiter Ascending, John Wick reunites Reeves with his stunt double Chad Stahelski from The Matrix. »