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Body Shaming

Billie Eilish Tackles Body Image and Double Standards in Short Film

Stories Firehose All Popular Polls Deals Submit Search Slashdot Login or Sign up Topics: Devices Build Entertainment Technology Open Source Science YRO Follow us: RSS Facebook Google+ Twitter Newsletter Catch up on stories from the past week (and beyond) at the Slashdot story archive Nickname: Password: Public Terminal Forgot your…

bubmagMay 27, 2020

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

From 9/11 to COVID-19, It’s Been a Perpetual State of Emergency

“The fundamental political question is why do people obey a government. The answer is that they tend to enslave themselves, to let themselves be governed by tyrants. Freedom from servitude comes not from violent action, but from the refusal to serve. Tyrants fall when the people withdraw their support.”—Étienne De…

bubmagMay 27, 2020

Jerusalem Controversy

How Israel and the Arab World Are Making Peace Without a Peace Deal

Without much fanfare or notice, the first known commercial aircraft from the United Arab Emirates recently landed at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport. It was carrying Covid-19 supplies for the Palestinian Authority, which, out of pique, rejected them. As unprecedented as the flight was, it really shouldn’t have come as much…

bubmagMay 27, 2020

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

From 9/11 to COVID-19, It’s Been a Perpetual State of Emergency

“The fundamental political question is why do people obey a government. The answer is that they tend to enslave themselves, to let themselves be governed by tyrants. Freedom from servitude comes not from violent action, but from the refusal to serve. Tyrants fall when the people withdraw their support.”—Étienne De…

bubmagMay 27, 2020

Electric Scooter

Ola Electric acquires Etergo, to launch own line of electric two wheelers this year

Ola Electric, the EV business that spun out of the ride-hailing giant Ola last year, has acquired an Amsterdam-based electric scooter startup as the Indian firm looks to locally produce and launch its own line of two wheelers as soon as this year. The Indian firm said Wednesday it had…

bubmagMay 27, 2020

Catalonia

Cobos, Ceña: men of honour

If it wasn’t so trite, fascist is the term that would best describe colonel Diégo Pérez de los Cobos, the Guardia Civil commander of the Madrid region who has recently been sacked by Fernando Grande-Marlaska, Spain’s Interior Minister. Pérez de los Cobos is joined by Laurentino Ceña, the Guardia Civil’s…

bubmagMay 27, 2020

Computers in School

Hunger programme’s slow start leaves millions of children waiting

As child hunger soars to levels without modern precedent, an emergency programme Congress created two months ago has reached only a small fraction of the 30 million children it was intended to help. The programme, Pandemic-EBT, aims to compensate for the declining reach of school meals by placing their value…

bubmagMay 27, 2020

Electric Scooter

Ola Electric acquires Netherland-based scooter-maker Etergo

Ola Electric Mobility on Wednesday said it has acquired Amsterdam-based electric scooter-maker Etergo, while also announcing its foray into the premium electric two-wheeler market.The company in a statement said it would leverage Etergo’s design and engineering capabilities to build its smart electric two-wheeler for international and Indian markets. While the…

bubmagMay 27, 2020

Cold War

Oh Hell Yeah Toy Soldiers Is Getting A WW2 Sequel

Toy Soldiers, one of the most dangerously underrated tower defence games of all time, has had a couple of spin-offs. But this week, marking ten years since the original’s release, a full-blown sequel has been shown off.While the original was set in the First World War, one spin-off in the…

bubmagMay 27, 2020

Propaganda

China’s Communist Party and Its American Media Enablers

05.26.20 China has a confederate in its effort to deflect attention from its mishandling of the outbreak of COVID-19: U.S. media. American media cooperated by repeating uncritically Beijing’s reports that it bears no responsibility for the spread of COVID-19. In fact, China’s state-controlled television has made U.S. media reporting part…

bubmagMay 27, 2020

Billie Eilish Tackles Body Image and Double Standards in Short Film

From 9/11 to COVID-19, It’s Been a Perpetual State of Emergency

How Israel and the Arab World Are Making Peace Without a Peace Deal

From 9/11 to COVID-19, It’s Been a Perpetual State of Emergency

Ola Electric acquires Etergo, to launch own line of electric two wheelers this year

Cobos, Ceña: men of honour

Hunger programme’s slow start leaves millions of children waiting

Ola Electric acquires Netherland-based scooter-maker Etergo

Oh Hell Yeah Toy Soldiers Is Getting A WW2 Sequel

China’s Communist Party and Its American Media Enablers

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