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Nuclear Disarmament

The Peace Sign: From No Nukes Logo to Anti-war Symbol

Advertisement If you have a can of spray paint and a giant rock face to paint on, and you need to tell a group of people a half a mile away that you come in peace, how would you get the message across? You could paint an olive branch or…

bubmagDecember 17, 2019

Hrant Dink

Trump administration tersely declines to recognize Armenian genocide despite unanimous Senate resolution

The Trump administration would like to quickly reject Congress' latest unanimous decision. Last week, the entire Senate voted to recognize the 1915 Armenian genocide, furthering a near-unanimous vote of approval by the House in October. But after Turkish Pre…

bubmagDecember 17, 2019

Hundreds of Chinese citizens told me what they thought about the controversial social credit system

The Chinese social credit system has been given an unequivocally negative reception by the media in the west. Set to be rolled out nationwide in 2020, the system has even been described by one journalist as China's "most ambitious project in social engineerin…

bubmagDecember 17, 2019

Hiroshima

A tale of two centuries on a time-travelling voyage across Asia

The entrance to the Atom Bomb Museum in Nagasaki is at the foot of a spiral slope. As you descend, dates on the wall count down to the moment when the bomb detonated. The Japanese city was the second human settlement to come under nuclear attack. So far, its …

bubmagDecember 17, 2019

Boeing 737max

Boeing halts production of 737 Max planes l ABC News – ABC News

Boeing announced it would temporarily suspend production of the jets but said for now it would not furlough or lay off the 12,000 employees involved in making the plane.READ MORE: https://abcn.ws/2rV3Z96 #ABCNews#Boeing#737Max#FAA

bubmagDecember 17, 2019

Electric Car

Several tech companies named in underage labor lawsuit over Cobalt mining

IRAdvocates filed a federal class-action lawsuit today (see link below for the full complaint) on behalf of 14 Doe Plaintiffs who are either guardians of children killed in tunnel or wall collapses while mining cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo ("DRC…

bubmagDecember 17, 2019

Korean War

The Moon Villages of South Korea

After the Korean War ended in 1953, many war refugees and other impoverished people moved to the rapidly developing urban centers and began squatting, often on hillsides. These downtrodden, gritty neighbourhoods came to be known as “moon villages” or daldongn…

bubmagDecember 17, 2019

Orangutan

Baby orangutan drugged and hidden in suitcase by trafficker to return to wild

The baby orangutan that was drugged by a Russian trafficker who was attempting to smuggle the animal out of Bali and back to his home country earlier this year will be released back into the wild, according to Monday reports. Russian national Andrei Zhestkov…

bubmagDecember 17, 2019

Silk Road

Video: Syria’s President Assad Discusses Syria’s Reconstruction, China’s “Belt and Road” and US Aggression

In the third of recent international interviews, Syrias President Bashar al Assad met with Phoenix Television, to discuss Belt and Road development projects with Chinas Phoenix Television. Given that Syria and China are both part of the original Silk Road th…

bubmagDecember 17, 2019

Big Data

A pioneer of wearable technology explains how it can connect instead of divide us

Are you embedded in your social surroundings? This is the core question, says Alex Sandy Pentland, head of the Human Dynamics group at MIT Media Lab. It may seem like an odd question for a technologist who has had a major influence on the development of the …

bubmagDecember 17, 2019

The Peace Sign: From No Nukes Logo to Anti-war Symbol

Trump administration tersely declines to recognize Armenian genocide despite unanimous Senate resolution

A tale of two centuries on a time-travelling voyage across Asia

Boeing halts production of 737 Max planes l ABC News – ABC News

Several tech companies named in underage labor lawsuit over Cobalt mining

The Moon Villages of South Korea

Baby orangutan drugged and hidden in suitcase by trafficker to return to wild

Video: Syria’s President Assad Discusses Syria’s Reconstruction, China’s “Belt and Road” and US Aggression

A pioneer of wearable technology explains how it can connect instead of divide us

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