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Nukes

This Is How North Korea’s Artillery Would Wage War

Key Point: North Korea has 13,000 artillery pieces that would kill thousands. Pyongyang on May 9, 2019 launched a second projectile, South Korean officials said. The May tests of at least one apparently nuclear-capable short-range missile startled foreign o…

bubmagOctober 31, 2019

Little Red Riding Hood

Don’t Watch These Short Horror Movies Alone

Here are 2019's must-see horror shorts, which are pure nightmare fuel. In 2016, I started an annual roundup of the best horror shorts I'd seen that year. The original article, The Most Terrifying Horror Shorts You Can Watch Online Right Now, went viral possi…

bubmagOctober 31, 2019

Belt and Road

How China Is Helping Drive Deforestation In Brazil And Indonesia

This has been a watershed year for tropical forestsand not in a good way. Massive fires have burned through hundreds of thousands of acres of rainforests in Indonesia and Brazil. The result is huge uptick in greenhouse gas emissions due to carbon being releas…

bubmagOctober 31, 2019

Iran Liberalism

Revolutionary Guards honor Jewish soldiers at religious memorial in Iran

Members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps recently participated in a Jewish religious memorial ceremony for Jewish soldiers, a rare occurrence in a country that is widely accused of persecuting its minorities and which regularly threatens to wipe ou…

bubmagOctober 31, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

Eastern members breached EU law by refusing refugees: court advisor

Brussels (AFP) - The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland likely broke EU law by refusing to take in asylum-seekers at the height of the refugee crisis in 2015, the top EU court's legal advisor said Thursday. The opinion issued by the European Court of Justice…

bubmagOctober 31, 2019

Paris

France Strips Officers of Guns Amid Push Against Radicalization

Security experts warned that the authorities needed to strike a balance between increased vigilance and avoiding religious discrimination, in a country where suspicions against Muslims have festered, especially since a series of terror attacks in 2015. If th…

bubmagOctober 31, 2019

Plastic Pollution

Coca-Cola, Nestle, and PepsiCo Are the Top 3 Plastic Polluters on the Planet

In the early 80s they had television commercials about how plastics in hospitals saves lives, yada yada yada. It was great things glass and cardboard and metal couldn't do. There is a place for plastics in the world, but it shouldn't be on the store shelves f…

bubmagOctober 31, 2019

Black Hole

Scientists May Have Detected a Mysterious New Kind of Black Hole

Scientists may have found the smallest black hole ever detected thanks to a new technique of combining multiple datasets, according to a study published on Thursday in Science. The black hole is around 3.3 times as massive as the Sun, scientists believe, an…

bubmagOctober 31, 2019

Drones

Cops who blew up innocent man’s house don’t have to pay, says appeals court

Leo Lech's home was destroyed by Greenwood Village, Colorado cops in 2015 when they used explosives to blow off the walls and drove an armored truck through the front door to arrest a shoplifter who had barricaded himself in Lech's home. Lech has been trying …

bubmagOctober 31, 2019

Black Hole

New type of black hole discovered

(CNN)Astronomers studying black holes in our galaxy, the Milky Way, have discovered what they believe to be a new type of black hole. This previously unknown class of black holes could be smaller than others that were previously dubbed the smallest black hole…

bubmagOctober 31, 2019

This Is How North Korea’s Artillery Would Wage War

Don’t Watch These Short Horror Movies Alone

How China Is Helping Drive Deforestation In Brazil And Indonesia

Revolutionary Guards honor Jewish soldiers at religious memorial in Iran

Eastern members breached EU law by refusing refugees: court advisor

France Strips Officers of Guns Amid Push Against Radicalization

Coca-Cola, Nestle, and PepsiCo Are the Top 3 Plastic Polluters on the Planet

Scientists May Have Detected a Mysterious New Kind of Black Hole

Cops who blew up innocent man’s house don’t have to pay, says appeals court

New type of black hole discovered

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