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Black Swan

Building A Future-Proof Portfolio

Every profession has been shaken to its core since the COVID-19 outbreak became a global pandemic in March, and stay-at-home guidelines challenged every single business model on the market. For investors, COVID-19 has served as a call to action to throw out the playbook and draw up new strategies founded…

bubmagJune 15, 2020

Julian Assange

Links 6/15/2020

Report from the hinterlands (Fresno, CA Fashion Fair Mall Fleming’s restaurant – an upscale steakhouse and wine bar) I am so old I can remember when the land at the Fashion Fair mall in Fresno Ca was an outdoor drive-in movie theater. So, apparently back on May 22, Fresno allowed…

bubmagJune 15, 2020

Julian Assange

First Thing: Covid-19 skeptics may convert as virus hits Trump country

Good morning,Throughout the coronavirus crisis, many Republicans have remained skeptical about the threat of Covid-19. But as the disease moves from urban Democratic strongholds such as New York into some of the rural and exurban areas that voted for Donald Trump, research suggests those partisan attitudes to the pandemic may…

bubmagJune 15, 2020

Korean Peace Talks

South Korea Urges North to Keep Up Joint Peace Efforts Following Communication Cut-Off

Asia & Pacific10:12 GMT 15.06.2020(updated 10:14 GMT 15.06.2020) Get short URLMOSCOW (Sputnik) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in called on Pyongyang on Monday to persevere in their joint peace efforts in his first official remarks after North Korea cut all communication channels with Seoul."The direction the two Koreas should go…

bubmagJune 15, 2020

Paris

Europe reopens borders but China battles new virus outbreak

Brussels (AFP) - A raft of EU nations reopened their borders to fellow Europeans on Monday after months of coronavirus curbs, but China was battling a new outbreak that has stoked fears of a second wave.As caseloads have declined in recent weeks across many parts of Europe, governments have been…

bubmagJune 15, 2020

Tories and Labour

Reaction: BLM activist saves counter-protester amid violent clashes

A Black Lives Matter protester is being applauded as a hero for carrying an injured rival demonstrator to safety after violence erupted at demonstrations in London on Saturday.An image captured by a Reuters news agency photographer shows Patrick Hutchinson, a personal trainer and grandfather, rescuing a man believed to be a far-right…

bubmagJune 15, 2020

Green Deal

Europe’s big climate comeback: Facing the COVID crisis, EU looks stronger than ever

Europe for years aspired to lead climate progress — but also, for years the EU seemed unable to grasp the scale of the actions needed to become, as French President Emmanuel Macron has proposed, "Europe, la Puissance" (that is, "the power"). France skillfully landed the Paris agreement, but its foundation was…

bubmagJune 15, 2020

Computers in School

To help distance learning absentees, educators go sleuthing

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — After a knock on his door, third-grade student Jamie-Lee emerged to see his school principal smiling at him from his doorstep. She held out her arms, offering a socially distant “air hug,” and told the boy how much she’d missed him since the pandemic closed their…

bubmagJune 15, 2020

Xi Jinping

Why Conservatives Believe a Chinese Lab Created the Coronavirus

As the United States struggled to contain the initial onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic, a few conservatives peddled an outlandish theory to explain the origins of the disease. The virus, they claimed, did not emerge in the Wuhan market where most experts believed it had appeared, but at the Wuhan…

bubmagJune 15, 2020

Pre-Crime

Live Event Manufacturer Reveals Employee Data Breach

Live Event Manufacturer Reveals Employee Data BreachA major manufacturing company for live events has disclosed a data breach affecting the personal and financial information of its employees.Tait Towers Manufacturing produces rigging, lighting and other equipment for concerts, theatrical performances and the like. It claims to have worked on many of…

bubmagJune 15, 2020

Building A Future-Proof Portfolio

Links 6/15/2020

First Thing: Covid-19 skeptics may convert as virus hits Trump country

South Korea Urges North to Keep Up Joint Peace Efforts Following Communication Cut-Off

Europe reopens borders but China battles new virus outbreak

Reaction: BLM activist saves counter-protester amid violent clashes

Europe’s big climate comeback: Facing the COVID crisis, EU looks stronger than ever

To help distance learning absentees, educators go sleuthing

Why Conservatives Believe a Chinese Lab Created the Coronavirus

Live Event Manufacturer Reveals Employee Data Breach

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