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Black Swan

Millions of Chinese Firms Face Collapse If Banks Don’t Act

(Bloomberg) -- Brigita, a director at one of China’s largest car dealers, is running out of options. Her firm’s 100 outlets have been closed for about a month because of the coronavirus, cash reserves are dwindling and banks are reluctant to extend deadlines on billions of yuan in debt coming…

bubmagFebruary 23, 2020

Mexico Border Wall

Video of Hispanic former Dem attending first Trump rally goes viral: ‘Build that wall!’

A video of Moses, a pro-Trump Hispanic voter, went viral Saturday showing the man's energetic reaction to his first rally in support of the president's re-election campaign. "This is my first rally. I used to be a Democrat!" he told a reporter with Abate Media. Moses is one of many…

bubmagFebruary 23, 2020

Greta Thunberg

This word means: C gretathunbergae

By: Express News Service | New Delhi | Updated: February 25, 2020 1:54:29 pm Craspedotropis gretathunbergae. (Photo: Schilthuizen et al/Biodiversity Data Journal)A group of citizen scientists working together with scientists from Taxon Expeditions, which organises field trips of taxonomic experts and laypeople to discover unknown species, has identified a new…

bubmagFebruary 23, 2020

Berlin Wall

Berlin starts controversial rent freeze on 1.5 million homes

Government official: Coronavirus vaccine trial starts Monday March 15, 2020 at 10:03 pm BERLIN — Berlin is freezing the rents of 1.5 million apartments for the next five years starting this Sunday in a controversial move to control the exploding costs that have forced many to move outside Germany’s capital…

bubmagFebruary 23, 2020

Xi Jinping

White House expected to ask Congress for coronavirus funds this week

Washington (CNN)White House officials are expected to ask Congress for emergency funding this week to battle the coronavirus amid growing fears of a larger outbreak in the US, two officials familiar with the forthcoming request said.Government aides worked throughout the weekend on the supplemental request, which is still not final…

bubmagFebruary 23, 2020

Paris

Gangster Ravi Pujari extradited from Senegal

Written by Johnson T A | Bengaluru | Updated: February 25, 2020 3:27:08 am Ravi Pujari. (File photo)More than a year after he was arrested in the west African country of Senegal on the basis of information provided by Indian agencies, notorious extortionist and gangster Ravi Suliya Pujari, 51, will…

bubmagFebruary 23, 2020

Dalai Lama

Using Technology to Solve Meditation Roadblocks

Beginning meditators often complain that they do not know if they are “doing it right” or give up before realizing significant benefits. Advanced meditators often reach a plateau and struggle to reach “the next level” of their practice. Traditionally, meditation practitioners sought a guru or sangha for support and direction.…

bubmagFebruary 23, 2020

Holocaust

Blowback Hits MSNBC After Chris Matthews Compares Sanders’ Win to Nazis Conquering France

MSNBC host Chris Matthews is taking heat for comparing Bernie Sanders’ win in Nevada on Saturday to the 1940 Nazi invasion of France. After being asked about his take on Sanders’ win, Matthews said, “I was reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940. And…

bubmagFebruary 23, 2020

Alibaba

Virus Outbreak Exposes $46 Billion Rift in China’s Tech Industry

View photos(Bloomberg) -- The coronavirus epidemic is exposing the dichotomy of the world’s second largest tech economy. Chinese businesses like Alibaba and Meituan with outsized footprints in the material world are rushing to contain the fallout while virtual denizens ByteDance Inc. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. ride a surge in social…

bubmagFebruary 23, 2020

Animal Protection

“It’s More Profitable Than Growing Crops”

The jury is still out as to what caused the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan. Chinese authorities initially suspected a wet market in Wuhan where wild animals like bats and snakes were sold illegally. A nearby biolab has also attracted scrutiny, and increased suspicion as Chinese authorities have been stubbornly unwilling…

bubmagFebruary 23, 2020

Millions of Chinese Firms Face Collapse If Banks Don’t Act

Video of Hispanic former Dem attending first Trump rally goes viral: ‘Build that wall!’

This word means: C gretathunbergae

Berlin starts controversial rent freeze on 1.5 million homes

White House expected to ask Congress for coronavirus funds this week

Gangster Ravi Pujari extradited from Senegal

Using Technology to Solve Meditation Roadblocks

Blowback Hits MSNBC After Chris Matthews Compares Sanders’ Win to Nazis Conquering France

Virus Outbreak Exposes $46 Billion Rift in China’s Tech Industry

“It’s More Profitable Than Growing Crops”

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