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Oil plunges as coronavirus threatens to hammer demand and producers clash over cutting output Obamacare

Oil plunges as coronavirus threatens to hammer demand and producers clash over cutting output

REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton Oil prices plunged as much as 11% - the most since 2014 - amid a collapse in OPEC+ discussions. Talks within the group broke down after Russia refused to meet Saudi Arabia's request for output cuts. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries halved its growth forecast for global oil…
bubmag
March 6, 2020
Friday: Hili dialogue 1619 Slavery

Friday: Hili dialogue

Good Friday (well, not the real one)! It’s March 6, 2020, and National Oreo Day, a deservedly successful cookie. (Why couldn’t Hydrox compete? That cookie is nearly extinct, and you can get them only on eBay or by mail order—at inflated prices. Even Amazon has run out of them.) Like…
bubmag
March 6, 2020
I have irked the Bernie Bros Meritocracy

I have irked the Bernie Bros

Congratulations to Porivil Sorrens for the single whiniest, least useful comment in this entire thread. Your #65 is a masterpiece of froth, a true subtlety, engaging with literally none of the other participants in this thread. Is it outstanding in the field in a very true sense. ========== @kome, #66:…
bubmag
March 6, 2020
Will Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods Survive Lab Meat’s Challenge? Beyond Meat

Will Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods Survive Lab Meat’s Challenge?

Some analysts predict the emerging science of cultured meat -- aka lab meat or synthetic meat -- could threaten the market share of "plant-based meat" producers like Beyond Meat (NASDAQ:BYND), Impossible Foods, and others in the near future. Growing meat separate from an animal might possibly solve the ethical, environmental,…
bubmag
March 6, 2020
Wiesbaden To Stage Historic UEFA Women’s Euro Qualifier Between Kosovo And Russia Hooliganism

Wiesbaden To Stage Historic UEFA Women’s Euro Qualifier Between Kosovo And Russia

WIESBADEN, GERMANY - MAY 24: View of the stadium of the Brita Arena before the Second Bundesliga ... Play Off first leg match between SV Wehen Wiesbaden and FC Ingolstadt at BRITA-Arena on May 24, 2019 in Wiesbaden, Germany. (Photo by Jörg Halisch/Bongarts/Getty Images) Bongarts/Getty Images Wiesbaden, a spa town…
bubmag
March 6, 2020
Tens of thousands of political ads on Facebook lacked key details about who paid for them, new report finds Astroturfing

Tens of thousands of political ads on Facebook lacked key details about who paid for them, new report finds

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bubmag
March 6, 2020
Week In Review: Protest at MoMA PS1; Hundreds Sign Petition to Free Detained Cuban Artist Times Square

Week In Review: Protest at MoMA PS1; Hundreds Sign Petition to Free Detained Cuban Artist

Activists tearing out replicas of works by Iraqi artist Ali Yass during a protest at MoMA PS1 (photo by Hakim Bishara for Hyperallergic)Week in Review is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world. Subscribe to receive these posts as a weekly newsletter.Dozens of protesters occupied MoMA PS1…
bubmag
March 6, 2020