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Air Pollution

One Thing You Can Do: Be Smart About Holiday Lights

The biggest thing you can do is to switch to LED lights. If you do, youll use up to 70 percent less energy than you would with traditional incandescent bulbs. Plus, you wont need to replace lights as often. LEDs last about 10 times longer. If you want the li…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Ukrainian Revolution

Impeachment and the Democrats: How will they screw this up? Let me count the ways

Thursday’s announcement by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that Democrats are ready to vote articles of impeachment against President Trump — presumably on the narrowest possible terms, after a constrained and foreshortened process — is hardly surprising. It is, h…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Yellow Vests

Pension protests paralyze life across France

PARIS-Anadolu Agency Protesters mobilized across France on Dec. 5 in a nationwide strike challenging President Emmanuel Macron's controversial pension reform plans. The Interior Ministry said 806,000 people took part, while labor unions put the number at ne…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Alibaba

SoftBank’s Son cleaves to guts-led investing in chat with Alibaba’s Ma

By Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) - Weeks after his billion-dollar bailout of WeWork, SoftBank Group Corp's founder and CEO Masayoshi Son reiterated his belief in an instinct-led investing style, in a discussion with Alibaba Group Holding Inc's &l…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Alibaba

SoftBank’s Son cleaves to guts-led investing in chat with Alibaba’s Ma

By Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) - Weeks after his billion-dollar bailout of WeWork, SoftBank Group Corp's founder and CEO Masayoshi Son reiterated his belief in an instinct-led investing style, in a discussion with Alibaba Group Holding Inc's co-founder Jack M…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Blockchain

Is Blockchain the New Ethical Gold Rush? Maybe

And Arianee, a digital certification platform based in Paris, has said it is working on what it describes as a digital identity of luxury products a serial number identifying where a product came from and whether it is sustainable to be completed next year. T…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Belt and Road

China most likely to become sole global superpower by mid-21st Century: Mitt Romney

China is most likely to become the sole global superpower by the middle of this century due to its "comprehensive, rigorous strategy to achieve global domination" and the United States' inaction, top Republican Senator Mitt Romney has said. During his "Will …

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Water Scarcity

Scientific ways to help ease water scarcity in SA

Pretoria News / 6 December 2019, 07:34am / LIAM NGOBENI South Africa has been ranked as the 30th driest country in the world and is forecast to run out of water in the next decade. Picture: Oupa Mokoena/African News Agency (ANA) Pretoria - Science and techn…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Hiroshima

Irandam Ulagaporin Kadaisi Gundu movie review: Athiyan Athirai’s anti-war thriller is subtle, but effectively delivers its message

Language: Tamil Director Athiyan Athirai has made a sensational debut with his Irandam Ulagaporin Kadaisi Gundu, produced by his mentor, noted director Pa Ranjith. Its a meaningful anti-war film made in an entertaining fashion, without becoming too preachy o…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

Viral video shows border wall being scaled at Mexicali. Border Patrol says system ‘worked exactly as designed’

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. A video taken by a Mexican citizen shows the newly replaced border fence in Mexicali being scaled by two men with a rope ladder, one of whom makes it over to the United States. The 38-second video shows a pair of men climbing the ladder …

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

One Thing You Can Do: Be Smart About Holiday Lights

Impeachment and the Democrats: How will they screw this up? Let me count the ways

Pension protests paralyze life across France

SoftBank’s Son cleaves to guts-led investing in chat with Alibaba’s Ma

SoftBank’s Son cleaves to guts-led investing in chat with Alibaba’s Ma

Is Blockchain the New Ethical Gold Rush? Maybe

China most likely to become sole global superpower by mid-21st Century: Mitt Romney

Scientific ways to help ease water scarcity in SA

Irandam Ulagaporin Kadaisi Gundu movie review: Athiyan Athirai’s anti-war thriller is subtle, but effectively delivers its message

Viral video shows border wall being scaled at Mexicali. Border Patrol says system ‘worked exactly as designed’

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