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NSA

6 Of The Biggest Tech Scandals Of The 2010’s – Grit Daily

Snowden - 2013 Prior to Snowden’s explosive leak of a top secret NSA and CIA program in 2013, the world was only slightly suspicious that the government was spying on them via the internet. Snowden, who was a contractor for the CIA at the time, blew the …

bubmagNovember 12, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

Ex First Sea Lord Admiral LORD WEST gives his devastating verdict on Corbyn

A grim smile crossed my face yesterday morning as Labours would-be Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry struggled on BBC Radio 4s Today programme to name a single international conflict in which her leader, Jeremy Corbyn, had backed Britains armed forces. Then…

bubmagNovember 12, 2019

Protectionism

FDI net inflows fall for 6th month in Aug. – BusinessWorld Online

By Luz Wendy T. Noble FOREIGN direct investment (FDI) inflows dropped year-on-year for the sixth month in a row in August, according to data which the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) released on Monday. Economists blamed generally weak investor sentiment …

bubmagNovember 12, 2019

Venezuela

Mexico offers former Bolivia president Evo Morales asylum

Mexico granted asylum to Bolivia's former President Evo Morales on Monday as unrest shook the South American nation, helping cement the Mexican government's emerging role as a bastion of diplomatic support for left-wing leaders in Latin America. Mexico's For…

bubmagNovember 12, 2019

Wag’s dog walkers are secretly rating your precious pet

Most people know that they can rate their Uber driver, and that the Uber driver can rate passengers in return. If you slip far below the average passenger rating, you may even get booted from the service. Now, the app perhaps best known as "Uber for dogs" ha…

bubmagNovember 12, 2019

Elon Musk

SpaceX sends up 60 mini-satellites with plans for thousands more – ABS-CBN News

WASHINGTON - The private SpaceX company on Monday launched a second set of mini-satellites as it builds a huge constellation of the small orbiting devices aimed at greatly expanding internet access around the globe. A Falcon-9 rocket launched from Cape Cana…

bubmagNovember 12, 2019

Monsanto

Bill Gates Still Shilling for Bayer

In a compelling interview with France 24, Vandana Shiva, environmental activist and anti-globalization author, reveals the nefarious influence multinational corporations like Monsanto have on agriculture. Rather than helping farmers to grow their land, the co…

bubmagNovember 12, 2019

Nukes

A16Z-backed Shift.org announces veterans hiring pipeline partnership with Better.com

While across much of Asia, November 11th is either singles day (a $38 billion Alibaba extravaganza this year) or Pepero Day (named because 11/11 looks like a bunch of chocolate dessert sticks), here in the United States and parts of Europe, November 11th also…

bubmagNovember 12, 2019

Checkpoint

Nine Ingenious Smuggling Machines That Beat The Berlin Wall

November 9, 2019, marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the physical embodiment of the Iron Curtain separating East and West in the Cold War. The Wall was built in 1961 to stop East Germans escaping to the West, but thousands found ways t…

bubmagNovember 11, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

The ego had relented: HENRY DEEDES on what could be the key moment of 2019 election

Phew. For a while there, Nigel Farage appeared to have developed a Captain Ahab complex. Ahab, readers of Moby-Dick will know, was the revenge-driven sea dog who leads his crew to a watery grave in order to satisfy his murderous obsession with a whale. Farag…

bubmagNovember 11, 2019

6 Of The Biggest Tech Scandals Of The 2010’s – Grit Daily

Ex First Sea Lord Admiral LORD WEST gives his devastating verdict on Corbyn

FDI net inflows fall for 6th month in Aug. – BusinessWorld Online

Mexico offers former Bolivia president Evo Morales asylum

SpaceX sends up 60 mini-satellites with plans for thousands more – ABS-CBN News

Bill Gates Still Shilling for Bayer

A16Z-backed Shift.org announces veterans hiring pipeline partnership with Better.com

Nine Ingenious Smuggling Machines That Beat The Berlin Wall

The ego had relented: HENRY DEEDES on what could be the key moment of 2019 election

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