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Plastic Pollution

Katharina Grosse Rides The Wave With Parley For The Oceans

Katharina Grosse surfboard for Parley for the Oceans Jens Ziehe As an avid surfer, artist Katharina Grosse is well aware that the ocean is under attack, and has been for a while. She also understands that the aggressor doing all the damage is humankind.&amp…

bubmagOctober 29, 2019

Star Wars

ZOMG there’s a new ‘The Mandalorian’ trailer (now with more Werner Herzog)

There’s probably no more hotly anticipated series from any new streaming service than “The Mandalorian” on Disney+ — and now the good folks at Disney have given us a new trailer to hypothesize about. There’s more action, more world-building, and much much mo…

bubmagOctober 29, 2019

Singapore

November 2019 Netflix

Netflix has released its lists of what's coming to the platform (and disappearing from it) in November, and in case you hadn't noticed the holiday season is coming. Such festive favorites as Let It Snow, Holiday in the Wild (starring Kristin Davis and Rob Low…

bubmagOctober 29, 2019

Times Square

‘The Deuce’ Finale: Co-Creator George Pelecanos On NYC Porn Biz Series’ Fade To Black

Warning: The following contains spoilers to tonight’s series finale of HBO’s The Deuce. In the end of the go-go 1970s-80s boogie of New York’s Times Square underbelly, and the whole rush of sex, cocaine and switchblades, George Pelecanos and David Simon’s H…

bubmagOctober 29, 2019

Trade War

FCC Proposes Banning U.S. Firms From Using Federal Subsidies to Purchase Huawei, ZTE Equipment

The Federal Communications Commission is moving forward with new restrictions on doing business with tech giants Huawei and ZTE, with chairman Ajit Pai setting a Nov. 19 date for vote on a proposal to bar U.S. firms that receive federal subsidies from purchas…

bubmagOctober 29, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

‘The Dispatch’ is Warmed-Over Neoconservative News

The Dispatch was launched as a digital media creation this month by what have been described as two of the most important names in conservative journalism, Stephen F. Hayes and Jonah Goldberg. These unabashed Never Trumpers, together with their new senior edi…

bubmagOctober 29, 2019

Donald Trump

Former Mattis staffer describes ‘jarring’ Trump briefing

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bubmagOctober 29, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

Postcards from a poisoned coast: Vietnam’s people-smuggling heartland

NGHE AN, Vietnam (Reuters) - The countryside in the Vietnamese provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh is dotted with billboards for labour export companies advertising jobs or study overseas. Thousands of people respond to the lure of a better life abroad every ye…

bubmagOctober 29, 2019

Obamacare

Former Democratic U.S. Senator Kay Hagan of North Carolina dies at age 66

(Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator Kay Hagan, a North Carolina Democrat who defeated a prominent Republican incumbent in 2008 and helped secure approval of the Obamacare healthcare law, died on Monday at age 66, her family said in a statement to local media. H…

bubmagOctober 29, 2019

Ukrainian Revolution

Georgia hit by massive cyber attack

A massive cyber-attack hit websites and some media sources in Georgia, as well as the Caucasian state's national TV station, BBC News reported on Monday. The agency's Caucasus correspondent Rayhan Demytrie said users on social media were speculating that the…

bubmagOctober 29, 2019

Katharina Grosse Rides The Wave With Parley For The Oceans

ZOMG there’s a new ‘The Mandalorian’ trailer (now with more Werner Herzog)

November 2019 Netflix

‘The Deuce’ Finale: Co-Creator George Pelecanos On NYC Porn Biz Series’ Fade To Black

FCC Proposes Banning U.S. Firms From Using Federal Subsidies to Purchase Huawei, ZTE Equipment

‘The Dispatch’ is Warmed-Over Neoconservative News

Former Mattis staffer describes ‘jarring’ Trump briefing

Postcards from a poisoned coast: Vietnam’s people-smuggling heartland

Former Democratic U.S. Senator Kay Hagan of North Carolina dies at age 66

Georgia hit by massive cyber attack

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