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Plastic Pollution

Plastic Pollution – From Mountain Top to Ocean Bottom

Plastic Pollution - From Mountain Top to Ocean Bottom

bubmagNovember 15, 2019

Trade War

Trade deal hopes, earnings lift Wall Street futures

(Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures rose on Friday, as positive comments related to the U.S.-China trade talks and strong earnings from semiconductor industry bellwether Applied Materials put the S&P 500 and Dow on track to hit fresh highs. White House…

bubmagNovember 15, 2019

Palestine

Fake news spread with #StopIsraeliTerror hashtag

CLAIM 1 Hashtag #StopIsraeliTerror was trending on top on Twitter in India yesterday. Tweeting under this hashtag, a Twitter user by the name of Mo.Riyaz shared an image of an injured baby to imply that the infant was injured by the Israel Army, recently. …

bubmagNovember 15, 2019

Xi Jinping

Hong Kong protests: China condemns ‘appalling’ attack on official in UK – BBC News

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionTeresa Cheng is jostled in London China has condemned what it called an "appalling attack" by protesters on Hong Kong's justice secretary in London on Thursday evening. Teresa Cheng fell and was tre…

bubmagNovember 15, 2019

Bees

Protecting native vegetation on rural properties yields Brazil USD 1.5 trillion per year

The 270 million hectares of native vegetation preserved by rural landowners (Legal Reserves and unprotected areas) yield Brazil the equivalent of some U.S. $1.5 trillion per year in ecosystem services, such as crop pollination, pest control, water security, r…

bubmagNovember 15, 2019

Obamacare

Pete Buttigieg Was An OG Bernie Bro: Read His Y2K Praise of His Current Rival

Pete Buttigieg has recently sought to distance himself from Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — in particular on the issue of Medicare For All. Buttigieg recently asserted he “never believed” in mandating single payer healthcare. “Only in the last few mont…

bubmagNovember 15, 2019

Venezuela

The world’s as divided about Bolivia’s alleged coup as Bolivians themselves

Last weekend, Bolivias president Evo Morales stepped down at the suggestion of his countrys army, amid mass protests over allegations that the longstanding socialist leader rigged an election. The world immediately became as divided as Bolivia itself over ho…

bubmagNovember 15, 2019

Hiroshima

Israel’s Tiny Dolphin-Class Submarines Have A Big Secret (Like Nuclear Weapons)

Key point: Israel's ace in the hole. Israels submarine corps is a tiny force with a big open secret: in all likelihood, it is armed with nuclear weapons. The five Dolphin-class submarines represent an ace in the hole for Israel, the ultimate guarantor of the…

bubmagNovember 15, 2019

Free Internet

PEW: Humanity is at a precipice; its future is at stake

The following sections share selections of comments from technology experts and futurists who elaborate on the ways internet use has shaped humanity over the past 50 years and consider the potential future of digital life. They are gathered under broad, overa…

bubmagNovember 15, 2019

Hiroshima

2017 North Korean nuke test equal to ’17 Hiroshimas’: ISRO study

The 2017 nuclear test by North Korea shifted the ground by a few metres, and was 17 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945, according to scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).Researchers led…

bubmagNovember 15, 2019

Plastic Pollution – From Mountain Top to Ocean Bottom

Trade deal hopes, earnings lift Wall Street futures

Fake news spread with #StopIsraeliTerror hashtag

Hong Kong protests: China condemns ‘appalling’ attack on official in UK – BBC News

Protecting native vegetation on rural properties yields Brazil USD 1.5 trillion per year

Pete Buttigieg Was An OG Bernie Bro: Read His Y2K Praise of His Current Rival

The world’s as divided about Bolivia’s alleged coup as Bolivians themselves

Israel’s Tiny Dolphin-Class Submarines Have A Big Secret (Like Nuclear Weapons)

PEW: Humanity is at a precipice; its future is at stake

2017 North Korean nuke test equal to ’17 Hiroshimas’: ISRO study

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