- [West Bromwich Albion] Bilkul Football WBA, LLC – a company ultimately owned by Florida-based entrepreneur Shilen Patel and his father Dr Kiran C. Patel – has acquired an 87.8% shareholding in West Bromwich Albion Football Club https://www.wba.co.uk/news/bilkul-football-wba-completes-west-bromwich-albion-takeover 19 comments soccer
- [WBA] Bilkul Football WBA, LLC – a company ultimately owned by Florida-based entrepreneur Shilen Patel and his father Dr Kiran C. Patel – has reached an agreement to acquire an 87.8% shareholding in West Bromwich Albion Group Limited, the parent company of West Bromwich Albion FC. https://twitter.com/WBA/status/1758246057933189465?t=-751S3EVMzVvohlQtrW27Q 3 comments soccer
- Alabama Investigative Report: The Cancer-Causing Bluestone Coal Plant In Birmingham - Owned By Billionaire West Virginia Republican Gov. Jim Justices' Family - In The African-American Part Of The City That Has One Of Highest Poverty Rates In America https://www.propublica.org/article/bluestone-jim-justice-north-birmingham 24 comments energy
- Calls for Queensland government to stop approving large, foreign-owned wind farm developments amid fears area could become "industrial wasteland". South-Korean owned developer wants to build 94-wind turbine development that will border World Heritage listed rainforest, west of Cairns. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-14/chalumbin-wind-farm-fnq-protests-world-heritage-rainforest/100857160 9 comments worldnews
- Taxpayers count the cost as a billionaire prospers in West Ham deal — David Sullivan and David Gold will soon be able to sell the club and take all the proceeds for themselves despite not owning the stadium https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2021/10/31/taxpayers-cost-billionaire-west-ham-sale-stadium/ 146 comments soccer
- Daniel Kretinsky, the Czech billionaire negotiating the purchase of a 27 per cent stake in West Ham, will propose a partnership between the club and Sparta Prague which he has co-owned for 17 years, as a potential player development line for the Premier League side. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2021/10/30/daniel-kretinsky-propose-west-ham-partnership-sparta-prague/ 38 comments soccer
- GOP governors are cutting unemployment aid. Some have ties to businesses that may benefit. - In West Virginia, the governor announced he was ending extra federal pandemic jobless benefits. Soon after, the resort he owns saw an uptick in job applications. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/06/07/gop-pandemic-unemployment-aid/ 49 comments politics
- West Brom manager, Slaven Bilic, expresses support towards Uyghurs on Instagram. Also notable that West Brom is presently owned by Chinese Businessman Lai Guo-Chuan. #SaveUyghur https://www.instagram.com/p/b6bdw_5c6kr/ 12 comments soccer
- [Pantherscast] Fun Fact: Since the #panthers left the NFC West in 2001, they have only lost 1 game to the Rams(Halloween in 2010). Owning the Rams with a 6-1 record (13-8 overall including playoffs). https://twitter.com/pantherscast/status/1169414517018779648?s=21 20 comments nfl
- State-owned Chinese media says Christchurch shooting shows the West is weakening https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/stateowned-chinese-media-says-christchurch-shooting-shows-the-west-is-weakening/news-story/775ec231251dac9d7ec5757c58d58a05 11 comments worldnews
- [Fox Sports West] Goose in Detroit gets owned by scoreboard https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/1002008081893539840 337 comments baseball
- A mine-owning, Mitch McConnell-hating, former convict could be the Republican Senate nominee in West Virginia https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/02/politics/don-blankenship-west-virginia/index.html 7 comments politics
- Israel removes settlers from homes on private Palestinian land - Israeli police began removing settlers and hundreds of supporters on Tuesday from nine houses built illegally on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-israel-palestinians-settlement-idukkbn16719c 688 comments worldnews
- Israel's parliament has approved a draft bill that could legalise thousands of Jewish homes built on privately-owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, a measure that has drawn condemnation by left-wing MPs and Israel's closest ally, the United States. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/israeli-pms-approve-draft-bill-legalise-settlements-161116132748879.html 31 comments worldnews
- Israel's parliament gave preliminary approval on Wednesday [16 November 2016] to a disputed bill that would retroactively legalize Jewish ettlement outposts built on privately-owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-settlements-iduskbn13b1fh 12 comments worldnews
- Hawaiki 30Tbps trans-pacific subsea cable commences construction; privately owned and 'carrier neutral' high-capacity subsea cable connects Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, and the US West Coast http://www.zdnet.com/article/hawaiki-30tbps-trans-pacific-subsea-cable-commences-construction/ 4 comments technology
- Israel demolishes Palestinian-owned homes and school in West Bank http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/03/israel-demolishes-dozens-palestinian-homes-bank-160304134304570.html 17 comments worldnews
- Israel plans to demolish up to 17,000 structures, most of them on privately owned Palestinian land in the part of the illegally occupied West Bank under full Israeli military and civil rule, a UN report has found. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/07/israel-demolish-arab-buildings-west-bank-un-palestinian?cmp=twt_b-gdnnews 4068 comments worldnews
- Film financed by West Ham owner David Sullivan attracts suspiciously good reviews online from accounts owned by "davidsullivansoffice" and "davesullivan-01061" http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/aug/25/west-ham-david-sullivan-film-review 48 comments soccer
- Peter B. de Selding on Twitter: "Eutelsat: Our all-electric Boeing-built Eutelsat 115 West B sat on track for late-Feb launch on SpaceX Falcon 9, with twin ABS-owned sat." https://twitter.com/pbdes/status/553541649604046850 11 comments spacex
- Israeli settlers stone U.S. diplomatic cars - Jewish settlers threw stones at the cars of a U.S. diplomatic delegation which came to inspect vandalism to nearby Palestinian-owned trees in the occupied West Bank on Friday, Israeli police said. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/01/02/uk-mideast-israel-usa-settlement-idukkbn0kb0xx20150102?rpc=401 128 comments worldnews
- In the West, if the Feds don't own it, the LDS church does. "By the time church officials realized the city actually owned the property, they had already built a storage shed on the site near the church’s newly constructed chapel." http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20140425/news01/304250018/lds-church-takes-time-responding-to-request-on-rebuilding-parowan-city-bathrooms 7 comments politics
- Kanye West gets owned in open letter by Chief David Oliver from the Brimfield Police station http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/kanye-west-gets-owned-in-open-letter-by-chief-david-oliver-from-the-brimfield-police-station/story-fn907478-1226784140929 3 comments worldnews
- According to int'l law, 'state-owned' lands in West Bank can be used only for the benefit of the local Palestinian population - Israeli researcher http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,l-4323027,00.html 4 comments worldnews
- Israel seeks court permission to expand 40 Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Israeli Government says old military expropriation orders allow for construction of Israeli settlements on privately owned Palestinian land. http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-seeks-court-permission-to-expand-40-west-bank-settlements.premium-1.464594 3 comments worldnews
- Three tenants who live in a West Hollywood apartment building owned by Clippers owner Donald Sterling have sued him for willfully ignoring fire-safety regulations at his "unsafe and dangerously maintained" building http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/03/09/44582.htm 4 comments nba
- A federal class action has been filed against West Publishing and LexisNexis for engaging in "unabashed wholesale copying of thousands of copyright-protected works created by, and owned by, the attorneys and law firms who authored them," and bundling them "for huge profits." http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/02/24/44150.htm 10 comments law
- Rare video: The world's longest conflict, between West Papua and Indonesia, is over the world's largest gold and copper mine, which is US-owned. http://www.globalpost.com/video/5682272/location-west-papua 4 comments worldnews
- The latest balloon to come floating out of the West Wing suggested that Uncle Sam could become the nation's largest landlord by renting out Federally owned foreclosed houses. What the housing market doesn't really need is another few layers of complexity riddled with corruption and graft, etc. http://www.businessinsider.com/us-government-could-put-foreclosed-homes-up-for-rent-2011-8 20 comments economy
- 'West owns Libya opposition' http://www.presstv.ir/detail/172011.html 5 comments worldnews
- West Bank: Hundreds of Jewish-owned avocado, almond and olive trees cut down by Palestinians http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,l-4002151,00.html 30 comments worldnews
- The West Wing about the bible. Never seen someone get owned this hard in a speech. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsxjzybeejm&feature=related 4 comments reddit.com
- Israeli Beauty Products Company Ahava Complicit in the Sins of Occupation - Ahava is owned by entities deeply involved in Israel's settlement project in the occupied West Bank. Activists are fighting to show it can't hide its dirty side. http://www.alternet.org/world/148214/israeli_beauty_products_company_ahava_complicit_in_the_sins_of_occupation/?page=entire 5 comments worldnews
- Israel’s Settlement Policy in the West Bank Report: Over a fifth of built-up settlement areas are constructed on privately owned Palestinian land http://www.btselem.org/english/publications/summaries/201007_by_hook_and_by_crook.asp? 21 comments worldnews
- West Coast Redditors: In case you weren't aware, ARCO gas stations are owned by BP http://www.arco.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryid=16002899&contentid=7022959 3 comments reddit.com
- Israelis set fire and destroy 37 Acres of Palestinian owned land in southern West Bank http://uruknet.com/?p=m55945&hd=&size=1&l=e 72 comments worldnews
- Tadeusz Kościuszko: One of the most interesting figures of the Revolutionary War - He called his friend, Thomas Jefferson, out for owning slaves, designed West Point, was imprisoned for fomenting revolution back in Poland after the American Revolution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tadeusz_ko%C5%9Bciuszko 7 comments reddit.com
- Leaked report on Jewish settlements in the West Bank shows that the Israeli government was complicit in illegal construction on land owned by Palestinians http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/01/2009130101043786259.html 43 comments worldnews
- More than 3,000 Israeli demolition orders are pending against Palestinian-owned structures in the West Bank http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/27/africa/me-gen-israel-west-bank.php 6 comments worldnews
- Oil Refinery Currently On Fire in West Texas Owned by Israeli Oil Company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/alon_usa 6 comments reddit.com