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Bill Gates Wants to Export India’s National ID System Around The Globe

Authored by Daniel Taylor via OldThinkerNews.com, Its not just a social credit score system spreading around the world from China that threatens the free people of the world; Indias Aadhaar National ID program has the full support of Bill Gates and the World…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Privacy Concerns

If you want an example of how user concerns do not drive how software gets made, check out this Google-backed API

Comment A nascent web API called getInstalledRelatedApps offers a glimpse of why online privacy remains such an uncertain proposition. In development since 2015, Google has been experimenting with the API since the release of Chrome 59 in 2017. As its name s…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Korean War

No More North Korea: Could America Have Won The Korean War With Nuclear Weapons?

Key point: It could have resulted in hundreds of thousands more dead. In 1950, as U.S. forces retreated from Chinas onslaught across the Yalu River, General Douglas MacArthur called for strategic air attacks against China. Many believed that this would neces…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Silk Road

Juben Productions Stretches From Peter Chan to Chinese Zombies

Beijing Juben Productions has taken over rights to the popular “Wolf Totem” novel from China Film Group and is working on a sequel to be delivered in 2021 or Chinese New Year 2022. It also has a zombie film up its sleeve, as well as a British co-production ab…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Hrant Dink

GOP senator says White House asked him to object to Armenian genocide resolution

(CNN)The White House asked Sen. Kevin Cramer to block a motion calling the mass killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire a "genocide" and the North Dakota Republican complied, Cramer told CNN on Thursday. The White House approached Cramer's foreign affairs…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Xi Jinping

TikTok is the best place on the internet, but we have to say no – CNET

Chinese video sharing app TikTok. James Martin/CNET Hi, my name is Daniel and I have a problem. A TikTok problem. After dismissing it for months, TikTok was thrust upon me last month at, of all things, a bachelor party in Hong Kong. It was a little like Th…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Putin

Please, Democrats, Don’t Make the Impeachment Articles Too Narrow

Either Muellers findings or the Ukraine drug deal, as Bolton reportedly called it, would merit impeachment on its own. But the urgency of Democrats impeachment process the subject of much bad-faith caterwauling on the right is best justified by Trumps recidiv…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Protectionism

Why Is Trump a Tariff Man?

Its important to realize that Trumpian protectionism wasnt a response to a groundswell of public opinion. As best as I can tell from the endless series of interviews with white guys in diners who are, we all know, the only Americans who matter these voters ar…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

Russia hands anti-Putin blogger surprise suspended sentence

Moscow (AFP) - Russia on Friday handed an unusually lenient three-year suspended sentence to a student convicted of making calls for extremism on a video blog condemning President Vladimir Putin. Yegor Zhukov, a 21-year-old student at Moscow's prestigious Hi…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

Hrant Dink

One US Senator Blocks Resolution Recognizing Armenian Genocide

WASHINGTON - Republican Senator Kevin Cramer prevented the U.S. Senate from voting Thursday on a resolution that would recognize as a genocide the mass killings of Armenians a century ago, saying it was not an appropriate time to pass legislation that would a…

bubmagDecember 6, 2019

If you want an example of how user concerns do not drive how software gets made, check out this Google-backed API

No More North Korea: Could America Have Won The Korean War With Nuclear Weapons?

Juben Productions Stretches From Peter Chan to Chinese Zombies

GOP senator says White House asked him to object to Armenian genocide resolution

TikTok is the best place on the internet, but we have to say no – CNET

Please, Democrats, Don’t Make the Impeachment Articles Too Narrow

Why Is Trump a Tariff Man?

Russia hands anti-Putin blogger surprise suspended sentence

One US Senator Blocks Resolution Recognizing Armenian Genocide

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