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Biological Warfare

Covid conspiracies: what happens when loved ones are drawn down the rabbit hole

It's a hot Friday evening in the middle of the lockdown. On Talbot Street, in Dublin city centre, a socially distanced queue is snaking around the corner from a supermarket. It's quiet, and nobody is really talking to each other. uddenly, a Mexican wave of groans rolls to the front…

bubmagJune 13, 2020

Obamacare

US health agency reverses Obamacare transgender protections

The rule reverses some provisions of the Affordable Care Act passed during President Barack Obama's administration, also known as Obamacare. By REUTERS JUNE 13, 2020 04:20 PEOPLE PROTEST US President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender service members in the military. (photo credit: REUTERS) The US Department of Health and Human…

bubmagJune 13, 2020

Volodymyr Zelensky

Ukraine’s first lady tests positive for coronavirus

Olena Zelenska adds her husband, President Volodymyr Zelensky, and their two children tested negative Published 9:18 AM, June 13, 2020 Updated 9:18 AM, June 13, 2020 OLENA ZELENSKA. First Lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska visits the Latvian Museum of Occupation with her husband in Riga, Latvia, on October 16, 2019.…

bubmagJune 13, 2020

Iran Liberalism

Khomeini’s Grandson Possible Presidential Candidate?

Radio Farda June 12, 2020 Iranian media have recently been speculating about the possible nomination of Seyed Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Khomeini, in Iran's presidential election next spring. "Reformists can consider Seyed Hassan Khomeini if they decide to run by the merit…

bubmagJune 13, 2020

Moon Mission

Amid Covid, India-Japan Moon mission takes shape, Isro to lead lander tech

BENGALURU: Even as both the countries continue to battle Covid-19 pandemic, Japan, which will be launching a joint lunar mission with India — Lunar Polar Exploration (LPE) — that hopes to put a lander and rover on Moon’s surface has, for the first time, spelled out details of the project…

bubmagJune 13, 2020

Clearview

Risks Digest 31.98

RISKS Forum mailing list archives Risks Digest 31.98 From: RISKS List Owner Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 16:30:00 PDTRISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Friday 12 June 2020 Volume 31 : Issue 98 ACM FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS (comp.risks) Peter G. Neumann, founder and still moderator…

bubmagJune 13, 2020

Antibiotics

Coronavirus: Contact-tracing rumours debunked

Image copyright Getty Images There have been false rumours circulating on social media about contact-tracing apps that are being introduced by governments to stop the spread of coronavirus. We've been looking into some of them and other dubious coronavirus claims. The NHS appIn the UK, the NHS contract-tracing app has…

bubmagJune 13, 2020

Bees

Floyd Zaiger, prolific fruit breeder who brought new flavors to our lives, dies at 94

Fruit breeders, who make crosses, plant experimental seedlings and evaluate them, generally labor in obscurity, but Floyd Zaiger, the most prolific and arguably the world’s greatest fruit breeder, was a high-profile exception.Over six decades he and his family developed 420 fruit and nut varieties patented in the United States —…

bubmagJune 13, 2020

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Billy Graham predicted out-of-control racial bloodshed, unless …

The greatest evangelist who preached to more people than anyone in the history of the world gave us a chilling warning before he went to heaven. In spite of all our affluence and achievements, Billy said that unless we focused on the transformation of people's hearts, there would be worsening…

bubmagJune 13, 2020

Genocide

Croatian fans detained over vulgar anti-Serbian banner

A vulgar message directed at "Serbian women and children" prompted Croatian police to detain several fans of Dinamo Zagreb football club. The fans also displayed symbols of the pro-Nazi Ustasha militia. Croatian officials slammed an anti-Serb incident that saw a group of youths display a banner in the capital Zagreb reading:…

bubmagJune 13, 2020

Covid conspiracies: what happens when loved ones are drawn down the rabbit hole

US health agency reverses Obamacare transgender protections

Ukraine’s first lady tests positive for coronavirus

Khomeini’s Grandson Possible Presidential Candidate?

Amid Covid, India-Japan Moon mission takes shape, Isro to lead lander tech

Risks Digest 31.98

Coronavirus: Contact-tracing rumours debunked

Floyd Zaiger, prolific fruit breeder who brought new flavors to our lives, dies at 94

Billy Graham predicted out-of-control racial bloodshed, unless …

Croatian fans detained over vulgar anti-Serbian banner

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