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1619 Slavery

Historian Victoria Bynum (Texas State U) responds to editor of AHR

Her response, to the AHR editor's sneering, is very strong; an excerpt: Despite your disclaimer that “in principle” being white should not “invalidate” the views of 1619 critics, in fact the skin color of historians critical of the 1619 Project has been scorned (and far worse) over and over again…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Climate Change

Planting 1 trillion trees might not actually be a good idea

Photo by Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert/picture alliance via Getty Images The World Economic Forum’s plan to plant 1 trillion trees is backed by controversial science Tree-planting campaigns have taken off, with everyone from YouTube creators to high-powered CEOs embr…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

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The Technology 202: Facebook to air first-ever Super Bowl ad as Washington drama ramps up

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bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Earth‘s Climate

PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS “FOUR YEARS TO SAVE EARTH:” Climate doomsayers keep putting sell-by dates o…

PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS “FOUR YEARS TO SAVE EARTH:” Climate doomsayers keep putting sell-by dates on their credibility. (Classical reference in headline.) Posted by Ed Driscoll at 8:45 am InstaPundit is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey’s Erdogan criticizes Arab silence over U.S. Middle East plan

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday criticized Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab nations for not speaking out against the U.S. Middle East plan which he said endorsed the Israeli annexation of Palestinian lands. FILE PHOTO: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a news conference ahead of…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Liam Gallagher

Liam Gallagher Releases Surprise EP ‘Acoustic Sessions,’ New ‘Once’ Video

Liam Gallagher surprise-released a live EP titled Acoustic Sessions Friday and with it a new video for “Once,” a Why Me? Why Not track that appears in its original demo form on the EP. The one-shot video features Gallagher as chauffeur and servant at a regal…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Brexit

A long and winding road: The UK journey in and out of the EU

LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom voted on June 23, 2016 to leave the European Union. It will finally leave at 2300 GMT on Jan. 31 after what has been a tortuous road in and out of membership. EARLY MISGIVINGS London declined to join the EU’s forerunner, the European Coal…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Brexit Negotiator

EU turns page on Brexit and moves on to trade talks

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Machine Learning

To Win The Talent Game, Employ Tech

The automation and digitization of business continues at a breathtaking pace, sending traditional business skill sets into obsolescence faster than ever and disrupting talent market dynamics. The escalating demand for new skills will disqualify large portions of the workforce from current positions. In fact, a recent McKinsey study shows that…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Stalingrad

The Foxer

To completely defox todays word chain youll need to provide Roman, my Chief Foxer Setter, with the sequence of 24 words suggested by the clues below. A word can be any length and is linked to the next word in the chain by its last two or three letters. For…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Historian Victoria Bynum (Texas State U) responds to editor of AHR

Planting 1 trillion trees might not actually be a good idea

The Technology 202: Facebook to air first-ever Super Bowl ad as Washington drama ramps up

PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS “FOUR YEARS TO SAVE EARTH:” Climate doomsayers keep putting sell-by dates o…

Turkey’s Erdogan criticizes Arab silence over U.S. Middle East plan

Liam Gallagher Releases Surprise EP ‘Acoustic Sessions,’ New ‘Once’ Video

A long and winding road: The UK journey in and out of the EU

EU turns page on Brexit and moves on to trade talks

To Win The Talent Game, Employ Tech

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