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Anti-Putin Protests

Student YouTuber emerges as fresh face of the anti-Putin movement in Russia

Authorities by their actions are only helping people like Zhukov to become nationwide political figures, Tatyana Stanovaya, nonresident scholar at the Moscow Carnegie Center and head of the R.Politik political analysis firm, told the Telegraph. "His name is …

bubmagDecember 7, 2019

Drones

Real X-Wings took flight at Disney’s new Star Wars ride grand opening thanks to Boeing

Boeing might be taking the last crucial steps to prepare for its first crewed Starliner capsule spaceflight, but it’s also busy turning sci-fi into reality right here on Earth by helping Disney build X-Wing large-scale starfighters to celebrate the opening of…

bubmagDecember 7, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Libyan War and Syrian Peace Top the Agenda at Russian FM Lavrov’s Rome Talks

Russian FM Sergei Lavrov has held talks in Rome with his foreign counterparts and spoke at the annual Mediterranean Dialogues conference. At the meeting with Lavrov, Italys top diplomat, Luigi di Maio, brought up the issue of Moscows EU food embargo.Early Dec…

bubmagDecember 7, 2019

Bees

Activist Junk Science Breeds Bad Policy

Skip to comments. Activist Junk Science Breeds Bad PolicyTownhall.com ^ | December 7, 2019 | Paul Driessen Posted on 12/07/2019 4:44:49 AM PST by Kaslin The House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources recently approved HR 2854, the 2019 Pro…

bubmagDecember 7, 2019

Palestine

Israel arrests Palestinian university students – Al Jazeera English

The Israeli army is accusing the occupied West Bank's most prestigious university, Birzeit, of being a recruitment centre for what it calls "terrorism".Dozens of students are currently in Israeli jails.The university denies the accusations but has told Al Jaz…

bubmagDecember 7, 2019

Yellow Vests

No let-up in French strikes as fresh turmoil hits weekend

The most serious nationwide strike to hit France in years caused new weekend travel turmoil on Saturday, with unions warning the walkouts would last well into next week. The challenge thrown to President Emmanuel Macron over his plans for radical pension ref…

bubmagDecember 7, 2019

Riots

These are very cool kaleidoscopes

"Nova Scopes" by David Sugich: My kaleidoscopes are not your typical everyday kaleidoscopes. I make a variety of 2-, 3-, and 4-mirror kaleidoscopes which are 2-, 2.5-, and 3-dimensional in nature. I use domestic, U.S.-made, colored glass as the decorative ex…

bubmagDecember 7, 2019

Biological Warfare

The army quietly re-opens its infamous germ warfare lab

Research at a secretive Army germ warfare lab about 50 miles from Washington, D.C. that works with tularemia, which spreads more easily than anthrax, has been partially restarted after a federal inspection found two failures in containing unnamed germs or tox…

bubmagDecember 7, 2019

Refugees

Afghans leave Iran in thousands as economy worsens

Thousands of Afghan workers and refugees are leaving Iran each week because of the dire economic situation caused by United States sanctions. They say rising prices and the falling value of the Iranian rial makes it impossible to survive. For some Afghans, …

bubmagDecember 7, 2019

Putin

Russia’s Twin Nostalgias

SOCHI, Russia—Gazing up at the bust of Joseph Stalin, the young boy listened silently as his mother squatted next to him, whispering the Soviet dictator’s story into his ear. The pair studied the black-colored sculpture, among many of Stalin in this city’s hi…

bubmagDecember 7, 2019

Student YouTuber emerges as fresh face of the anti-Putin movement in Russia

Real X-Wings took flight at Disney’s new Star Wars ride grand opening thanks to Boeing

Libyan War and Syrian Peace Top the Agenda at Russian FM Lavrov’s Rome Talks

Activist Junk Science Breeds Bad Policy

Israel arrests Palestinian university students – Al Jazeera English

No let-up in French strikes as fresh turmoil hits weekend

These are very cool kaleidoscopes

The army quietly re-opens its infamous germ warfare lab

Afghans leave Iran in thousands as economy worsens

Russia’s Twin Nostalgias

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