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MAD Architects Revitalize Beijing’s Historic Building Fabric with Futuristic Elan

The discrete restoration of the original buildings fabric is boldly complemented by the incorporation of the two bubble-like pods which appear, despite their futuristic sheen, to have grown organically out of the aging structure. Perched on the buildings roof…

bubmagDecember 8, 2019

Scotland

8 things I learned while stranded in Orkney, Scotland

Before I took a trip there to fly the world’s shortest commercial flight, I was surprised by how many people didn’t know where Orkney was, or even that it was in the U.K. It’s an archipelago of around 70 islands, 10 miles north of the coast of Caithness in Sc…

bubmagDecember 8, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi Arabia ends gender-segregated entrances for restaurants

Restaurants in Saudi Arabia will no longer need to maintain entrances segregated by sex, authorities have said, in a move upending a major hallmark of conservative restrictions that had been in place for decades. Previously, Saudi Arabia required all restau…

bubmagDecember 8, 2019

Palestine

View From The Neighbourhood: The Palestine example

Published: December 9, 2019 1:28:38 am Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Bajwa.While last month, the focus in the Pakistan press was the proposed extension of Army Chief General Qamar Bajwas tenure and its supreme courts ruling on the matter along with other…

bubmagDecember 8, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

Ted Cruz hammered as ‘Putin’s stooge’ after humiliating himself on NBC to push Kremlin propaganda

In a column for the Washington Post, conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin in publically shamed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for his conversion from Cold War Russia critic to unabashed “Putin stooge” after his performance on “Meet the Press” on Sunday. Speaking with…

bubmagDecember 8, 2019

Refugees

North Dakota County May Become U.S. First to Bar New Refugees

(BISMARCK, N.D.) — Reuben Panchol was forced to leave war-torn Sudan decades ago as a child, embarking on an odyssey that eventually brought him to the American Midwest and left him eternally grateful to the country that took him in. “I am an American citize…

bubmagDecember 8, 2019

Refugees

Church’s nativity scene depicts Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as a family separated at the border

Claremont United Methodist Church transformed its Christmas nativity scene into a powerful statement about family separation by caging their figures of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph and releasing a theological statement on the United States' treatment of refugees. …

bubmagDecember 8, 2019

Greta Thunberg

‘In His Dark Materials’ Cast Compares Lyra To Greta Thunberg: “We Shouldn’t Underestimate Children” – CCXP

Actors Ruth Wilson and Clarke Peters took the dais at CCXP to talk about HBO fantasy drama His Dark Materials, based on the best-selling novels by Philip Pullman. The two went into detail about their characters and how it has been like working on such an amb…

bubmagDecember 8, 2019

Nukes

Trump warns Kim Jong Un could lose ‘special relationship’ with him

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump warned Sunday that North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un could "void" their "special relationship" amid reports that the hermit nation conducted an "important" test at a missile site. "Kim Jong Un is too smart and has far to…

bubmagDecember 8, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

It has come to this: Ted Cruz is Putin’s stooge

In fact, in March 2014, CNN reported: President Barack Obama and other world leaders have decided to end Russias role in the group of leading industrialized nations. . . . The move to suspend Russias membership in the G8 is the latest direct response from ma…

bubmagDecember 8, 2019

MAD Architects Revitalize Beijing’s Historic Building Fabric with Futuristic Elan

8 things I learned while stranded in Orkney, Scotland

Saudi Arabia ends gender-segregated entrances for restaurants

View From The Neighbourhood: The Palestine example

Ted Cruz hammered as ‘Putin’s stooge’ after humiliating himself on NBC to push Kremlin propaganda

North Dakota County May Become U.S. First to Bar New Refugees

Church’s nativity scene depicts Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as a family separated at the border

‘In His Dark Materials’ Cast Compares Lyra To Greta Thunberg: “We Shouldn’t Underestimate Children” – CCXP

Trump warns Kim Jong Un could lose ‘special relationship’ with him

It has come to this: Ted Cruz is Putin’s stooge

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