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Feudalism

Capitalism, Democracy and Europe – Interviewed for the Great Transition Initiative

What inspired your career trajectory from academic economist to prominent supranational activist? I went into politics because of the financial crisis of 2008. Had financial capitalism not imploded, I would have happily continued my quite obscure academic wo…

bubmagNovember 4, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

‘Spirit of optimism is gone’: Sombre mood as Germany marks 30 years of Berlin Wall fall

Leaders of former Cold War powers will be absent from anniversary festivities, as Donald Trump's America First, Britain's Brexit and Russia's resurgence put a strain on ties. Gone, too, is the euphoric optimism for liberal democracy and freedom that characte…

bubmagNovember 4, 2019

SpaceX

SpaceX video shows off successful test of new Crew Dragon parachutes

SpaceX is edging closer to the day that its Crew Dragon capsule carries astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). A video (below) posted online on Sunday showed a recent parachute test simulating what would happen if one of the capsules four main …

bubmagNovember 4, 2019

Holocaust

Holocaust survivors share experiences with NI schoolchildren

Media captionBergen-Belsen survivors meet 74-years after their liberation It's been 74 years since the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated by British troops during World War Two and in Belfast, thousands of miles away, two of its survivors are mee…

bubmagNovember 4, 2019

Jerusalem Controversy

Housing cabinet to discuss approval of Old City cable car amid protests

The housing cabinet of the outgoing government will discuss approving a planned cable car system leading to the Old City as activists protest the decision being discussed under a transitional government. Attorney Itay Mack, who spoke on behalf of "coalition …

bubmagNovember 4, 2019

NASDAQ

French company Axereal buys Cargill’s malt business – Nasdaq

Nov 4 (Reuters) - Axereal, France's largest grain cooperative, said on Monday that it had agreed to buy Cargill's malt business, in a deal which the French company said would make Axereal's Boortmalt unit the world's leading company in terms of malt productio…

bubmagNovember 4, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

Britain and Europe Are Destined to Be Rivals

Much of Brexit is the application of logic to decisions that have already been made. Thus: British voters decided in 2016 that they wanted to end the right of European Union citizens to live and work in Britain, and to repatriate trade policy to Westminster, …

bubmagNovember 4, 2019

Filter Bubble

Senators To Platforms: Hand Over The Algo; DoubleClick Vet Brad Bender Transfers To Google News

bubmagNovember 4, 2019

Slavery Abolition

False security: Trump and the Ten Commandments (plus one) of the national security state

Let us stipulate at the outset that Donald Trump is a vulgar and dishonest fraud without a principled bone in his corpulent frame. Yet history is nothing if not a tale overflowing with irony. Despite his massive shortcomings, President Trump appears intent on…

bubmagNovember 4, 2019

Biological Warfare

Project MKULTRA

Project MKUltra is the code name of a U.S. government covert research operation experimenting in the behavioral engineering of humans (mind control) through the CIA's Scientific Intelligence Division. The program began in the early 1950s, was officially sanct…

bubmagNovember 4, 2019

Capitalism, Democracy and Europe – Interviewed for the Great Transition Initiative

‘Spirit of optimism is gone’: Sombre mood as Germany marks 30 years of Berlin Wall fall

SpaceX video shows off successful test of new Crew Dragon parachutes

Holocaust survivors share experiences with NI schoolchildren

Housing cabinet to discuss approval of Old City cable car amid protests

French company Axereal buys Cargill’s malt business – Nasdaq

Britain and Europe Are Destined to Be Rivals

Senators To Platforms: Hand Over The Algo; DoubleClick Vet Brad Bender Transfers To Google News

False security: Trump and the Ten Commandments (plus one) of the national security state

Project MKULTRA

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