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A Sick Giant

This is Chapter 10 in a blog series. If youre new to the series, visit the series home page for the full table of contents. Part 5: A Dangerous Trend The gentle downward slope gets steeper and imperceptibly becomes an abyss. Tomas Tranströmer Chapter 10: …

bubmagJanuary 8, 2020

Nukes

Laura Ingraham Smears Media As ‘Iran’s American Propagandists’

Laura Ingraham on Tuesday used Iran’s missile strike on U.S. forces to launch an incendiary attack one of her longtime targets: the American media. (See the clip above.) The headline for the Fox News host’s segment was “Iran’s American Propagandists,” accomp…

bubmagJanuary 8, 2020

Armed Robot

CES 2020: Ford wants this two-legged robot to deliver packages to your door

Ford has announced that it is purchasing a new two-legged, two-armed robot produced by Agility Robotics, which the car-maker hopes will soon be walking around neighborhoods carrying parcels from the delivery vehicle right up to your door. Going by the name …

bubmagJanuary 8, 2020

Brexit Negotiator

EU Makes Threats as Boris to Tell Eurocrat UK Ready to Walk Away Without Deal

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to tell the president of the European Commission that he is ready to walk away from the EU without a trade deal at the end of the transition period. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU’s powerful executive arm, i…

bubmagJanuary 8, 2020

Putin

Turkey, Russia call on U.S., Iran to prioritize diplomacy

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey and Russia called on United States and Iran on Wednesday to prioritize diplomacy and de-escalate tensions, warning that the exchange of attacks by Washington and Tehran could lead to a new cycle of instability in the region. The jo…

bubmagJanuary 8, 2020

Hiroshima

Bin Laden Killer Rob O’Neill Casually Floats Nuking Iran Via Twitter

Robert ONeill, the Navy SEAL who famously killed Osama bin Laden, seems to be suggesting that Iran should be nuked. “Wanna know what Tehran and Hiroshima have in common?” O’Neill asked his Twitter followers on Tuesday night. “Nothing yet,” he answered himsel…

bubmagJanuary 8, 2020

Silk Road

Why US Hostility Towards Chinese Tech Groups Feels Like Déjà Vu

By Sebastien Canderle, an investment consultant, a lecturer at Imperial College London, and the author of Private Equitys Public Distress The Trump administration has shown much resistance to Huaweis and ByteDances American expansion due to the risks the for…

bubmagJanuary 8, 2020

NASDAQ

Dow Jones Today, Stocks Await Trump’s Iran Response; Lennar, Macy’s Jump; Walgreens Dives On Earnings Miss – Investor’s Business Daily

Stocks gained strength Wednesday, helped by some solid December jobs data, after markets recovered from a steep after-hours dive Tuesday in response to an Iranian missile attack against U.S. troops in Iraq. President Donald Trump said he would comment on the …

bubmagJanuary 8, 2020

Doping in Cycling

Bjarne Riis back in elite cycling as team manager of NTT

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) Bjarne Riis, the 1996 Tour de France champion who admitted to doping following his retirement from cycling, is back in the sport as team manager of NTT Pro Cycling on the World Tour. It marks the return of Riis to top-level men's cyc…

bubmagJanuary 8, 2020

Putin

Survey finds persistent Canadian respect for U.S., wide disdain for Trump – CTV News

WASHINGTON -- Canadian attitudes towards U.S. President Donald Trump and his controversial approach to international relations appeared to soften slightly in the weeks after U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum exports from north of the border were lifted las…

bubmagJanuary 8, 2020

A Sick Giant

Laura Ingraham Smears Media As ‘Iran’s American Propagandists’

CES 2020: Ford wants this two-legged robot to deliver packages to your door

EU Makes Threats as Boris to Tell Eurocrat UK Ready to Walk Away Without Deal

Turkey, Russia call on U.S., Iran to prioritize diplomacy

Bin Laden Killer Rob O’Neill Casually Floats Nuking Iran Via Twitter

Why US Hostility Towards Chinese Tech Groups Feels Like Déjà Vu

Dow Jones Today, Stocks Await Trump’s Iran Response; Lennar, Macy’s Jump; Walgreens Dives On Earnings Miss – Investor’s Business Daily

Bjarne Riis back in elite cycling as team manager of NTT

Survey finds persistent Canadian respect for U.S., wide disdain for Trump – CTV News

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