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Scotland

How to Photograph Great Seascapes

The late great Galen Rowell once advised us to look to the edges of environments, and there we would find many successful images. Where the land meets the sea must be by far one of our most fertile hunting grounds. Ever since we were children, given a bucke…

bubmagJanuary 19, 2020

Cristina Kirchner

Pompeo: All countries should blacklist Hezbollah

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday urged all countries to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Pompeo’s call came in a tweet which was posted a day after Britain’s finance ministry announced it had added the entire Hezbollah organizati…

bubmagJanuary 19, 2020

VR

Ironlights combines epic VR melee fighting on Quest with LAN multiplayer support

Ironlights is a new combat-and-dueling melee VR game coming to the Oculus Quest, Rift and SteamVR this spring. The announcement coincides with a Kickstarter with a $15,000 goal aimed at helping developer E McNeill finish the game strong before launch. Most no…

bubmagJanuary 19, 2020

AR-15

Patriot Ordnance Factory releases the lightest.308 AR in the world

PHOENIX, Jan. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- POF-USA is proud to announce the Rogue, an ultra-light carbine weighing in at under 6 pounds. Using the highly acclaimed Revolution design, the Rogue is the same size as the AR-15, yet chambered in the .308 battle rifle …

bubmagJanuary 19, 2020

Cristina Kirchner

Argentines remember prosecutor killed while probing attack on Jews

Buenos Aires (AFP) - Argentines paid tribute Saturday to a prosecutor on the fifth anniversary of his unsolved death while probing the bombing of a Jewish community center -- an attack in which he alleged a presidential cover-up to shield Iran in exchange for…

bubmagJanuary 19, 2020

New York City

‘This Is Not a Request’: ICE Ups Ante in Standoff With New York City Over ‘Sanctuary Policies’

NEW YORK — Federal authorities are turning to a new tactic in the escalating conflict over New York City’s so-called sanctuary policies, issuing four “immigration subpoenas” to the city for information about inmates wanted for deportation. “This is not a req…

bubmagJanuary 19, 2020

Climate Change

Thousands Gather for Women’s March Rallies Across the U.S.

WASHINGTON — Thousands gathered in cities across the country Saturday as part of the nationwide Women’s March rallies focused on issues such as climate change, pay equity, reproductive rights and immigration. Hundreds showed up in New York City and thousands in Washington, D.C. for the rallies, which aim to harness…

bubmagJanuary 19, 2020

Silk Road

Myanmar, China ink deals to accelerate Belt and Road as Xi courts isolated Suu Kyi

China and Myanmar inked dozens of deals on Saturday to speed up infrastructure projects in the Southeast Asian nation, as Beijing seeks to cement its hold over a neighbour increasingly isolated by the West.But no major new projects were agreed during the two-day visit by President Xi Jinping, the first…

bubmagJanuary 19, 2020

Self-driving Vehicles

Slate Announces List of The 30 Most Evil Tech Companies

Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading! Slate Announces List of The 30 Most Evil Tech Companies (slate.com) Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday January 18, 2020 @07:34PM from the naughty-not-nice dept. An anonymous reader quotes Slate: Separating out the meaningful threats from…

bubmagJanuary 19, 2020

Bolsonaro

Brazilian authoritarian Bolsonaro fires his culture minister for giving a speech plagiarized from Joseph Goebbels

Last week, Roberto Alvim, gave a speech in his capacity as Brazil's culture minister: backed by a Wagner aria, Alvim gave a speech about reforming Brazilian art that literally plagiarized the words of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's minister of propaganda. After a…

bubmagJanuary 18, 2020

How to Photograph Great Seascapes

Pompeo: All countries should blacklist Hezbollah

Ironlights combines epic VR melee fighting on Quest with LAN multiplayer support

Patriot Ordnance Factory releases the lightest.308 AR in the world

Argentines remember prosecutor killed while probing attack on Jews

‘This Is Not a Request’: ICE Ups Ante in Standoff With New York City Over ‘Sanctuary Policies’

Thousands Gather for Women’s March Rallies Across the U.S.

Myanmar, China ink deals to accelerate Belt and Road as Xi courts isolated Suu Kyi

Slate Announces List of The 30 Most Evil Tech Companies

Brazilian authoritarian Bolsonaro fires his culture minister for giving a speech plagiarized from Joseph Goebbels

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