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Nukes

Iran says U.S. sanctions on Khamenei mean end of diplomacy

DUBAI (Reuters) - New U.S. sanctions against Iran’s supreme leader and foreign minister have closed off diplomacy, Iran said on Tuesday, blaming the United States for abandoning the only route to peace just days after the two foes came within minutes of confl…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Palestine

Bahrain: Questions to Ask at Palestine Workshop

Bahraini anti-government protesters hold up images of jailed human rights activist Nabeel Rajab during a solidarity protest on May 14, 2015. © AP Photo/Hasan Jamali (Beirut) Participants in the Peace to Prosperity workshop on June 25 and 26 in Manama, and jo…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency: Bad for Privacy, Bad for Competition

Scott A. Shay is co-founder and chairman of Signature Bank of New York and the author of In Good Faith: Questioning Religion and Atheism (Post Hill Press, 2018). Allowing Facebook to mint its own coin, the Libra, would turn it into the greatest anti-competit…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Drones

Mike Pompeo Is Holding Middle East Talks on Building a Coalition Against Iran

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held talks Monday with leaders in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates about countering the military threat from Iran by building a broad, global coalition that includes Asian and Eur…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Riots

You can’t offer to murder cops on Reddit unless you’re on r/TheDonald

Reddit has a very specific policy prohibiting people from threatening bodily harm or attempting to incite violence. It uses this policy as the basis for banning individual accounts, discussion threads, and whole subreddits. Basically if you cross the line, yo…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

At G20, Trump to hold at least eight side bilateral meetings

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is slated to meet one-on-one with at least eight world leaders on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, later this week, a senior U.S. administration official said on Monday. Trump will hold talk…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Gundam

Yahoo View Ending Service With More than 300 Anime Series

Anime is more widely available and distributed than ever, and it's easier to legally stream many series than it was many years ago. But unfortunately, the options for free legal streaming have taken a hit. Resourceful anime fans have been using the Yahoo! Vie…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Astroturfing

Biz tells ransomware victims it can decrypt their files… by secretly paying off the crooks and banking a fat margin

A Scottish managed services provider is running a lucrative sideline in ransomware decryption however, a sting operation by a security firm appears to show that decryption merely means paying off the malware's masterminds. The services provider, Red Mosquito…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Obamacare

Trump Calls Latest Health Care Executive Order ‘The Opposite Of Obamacare’

President Donald Trump signed an executive order he called “the opposite of Obamacare” that directs the Department of Health and Human Services to create rules increasing transparency in health care pricing Monday. “We will empower patients with the informat…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Iran Liberalism

War with Iran will cost more than the Iraq and Afghanistan wars

Seventeen years ago, a group of neoconservatives surrounding President George W. Bush persuaded him to mount a quick invasion of Iraq in order prevent it from acquiring weapons of mass destruction. That decision, based on dubious intelligence and taken agains…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Iran says U.S. sanctions on Khamenei mean end of diplomacy

Bahrain: Questions to Ask at Palestine Workshop

Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency: Bad for Privacy, Bad for Competition

Mike Pompeo Is Holding Middle East Talks on Building a Coalition Against Iran

You can’t offer to murder cops on Reddit unless you’re on r/TheDonald

At G20, Trump to hold at least eight side bilateral meetings

Yahoo View Ending Service With More than 300 Anime Series

Biz tells ransomware victims it can decrypt their files… by secretly paying off the crooks and banking a fat margin

Trump Calls Latest Health Care Executive Order ‘The Opposite Of Obamacare’

War with Iran will cost more than the Iraq and Afghanistan wars

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