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The Queen

Olivia Colman reveals husband STOLE a roll of toilet paper from Buckingham Palace at charity event

Olivia Colman has revealed her husband stole a toilet roll from Buckingham Palace when they visited for a charity event - and that she's become 'completely obsessed' by the Queen. The Oscar-winning actress plays Britain's longest serving ruler in the long-a…

bubmagOctober 13, 2019

Greta Thunberg

Climate activist Greta Thunberg making her way to Alberta – CTV News

CALGARY Outspoken Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is setting her sights on Alberta as she is making her way north through the U.S. on her global tour to raise awareness about protecting the planet. According to a post on Twitter, Thunberg said she wi…

bubmagOctober 13, 2019

Venezuela

Climate activist Greta Thunberg announces plans to visit Alberta – Calgary Herald

The world’s most famous climate activist says she’s heading for oil country. Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish student who captured the world’s attention with her weekly climate strikes, said on Twitter that she is planning to visit Alberta after a few…

bubmagOctober 13, 2019

Skateboard

Screenshot Saturday Sundays: canine kickflips, melancholic moons, and dancing death

Screenshot Saturday! A day to take a look at some games that dont yet exist, may become entirely different things at any moment, and yet still pique the interest for what they are right now. This week: one Halloween-y pooch, some extremely relaxing stargazing…

bubmagOctober 13, 2019

Palestine

These attacks are not wake-up calls. These are signs of the systemic failure of Germany’s open society.

One certainly cannot accuse CDU party chairwoman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer of speaking in overly drastic terms. She sees the attack in Halle as a 'wake-up call'. It is alarm clocks that send out wake-up calls. Has somebody woken up from a deep sleep? Halle …

bubmagOctober 13, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Germany’s Merkel tells Erdogan to halt Syria offensive immediately

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call on Sunday to bring to an immediate halt the military operation in northern Syria, a German government spokeswoman said. “The Chancellor advoca…

bubmagOctober 13, 2019

Trickle-Down

The New Trickle-Down Theory of Economics

A recent New York Times opinion piece by David Leonhardt titled The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes can best be described as an advertisement for Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucmans new book The Triumph of Injustice. Saez and Zucman are both left-leaning economi…

bubmagOctober 13, 2019

Silk Road

Nepal pushes to end dependency on India with China rail, tunnel deals

China's President Xi Jinping (L) on Oct 12 signs a book as Nepal's President Bidhya Devi Bhandari looks on. PHOTO: AFP KHATMANDU: Chinese President Xi Jinping wound up two days of meetings in Nepal on Sunday with separate deals for a rail link to Tibet and …

bubmagOctober 13, 2019

Little Italy

A Spirited Family Dinner in a Haunted Restaurant

Reading Time: 5minutesA walk to the bathrooms at Monteleone’s Ristorante in El Paso may take you past a few shady characters, or perhaps a ghost or two. All images: Rick Tate Last week, our family enjoyed a happily haunted experience at a local restaurant to…

bubmagOctober 13, 2019

NATO

A Real Threat: Why Russia’s Air Force Should Be Taken Seriously

Key point: Although behind America, Russia's air force is rapidly improving. When it comes to air power, its no secret that the United States and the West have often held an edge over Russia. This dates at least as far back to World War II, when the United …

bubmagOctober 13, 2019

Olivia Colman reveals husband STOLE a roll of toilet paper from Buckingham Palace at charity event

Climate activist Greta Thunberg making her way to Alberta – CTV News

Climate activist Greta Thunberg announces plans to visit Alberta – Calgary Herald

Screenshot Saturday Sundays: canine kickflips, melancholic moons, and dancing death

These attacks are not wake-up calls. These are signs of the systemic failure of Germany’s open society.

Germany’s Merkel tells Erdogan to halt Syria offensive immediately

The New Trickle-Down Theory of Economics

Nepal pushes to end dependency on India with China rail, tunnel deals

A Spirited Family Dinner in a Haunted Restaurant

A Real Threat: Why Russia’s Air Force Should Be Taken Seriously

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