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Old-Age Poverty

The Most Important Presidential Election Question (That No One Ever Asks!)

Once again, the American voter has dutifully begun their quadrennial march to futility at the hands of another election cycle full of false prophets. None seem to realize or remember that the monocracy that they hold so sacrosanct is not- and has not been- a …

bubmagOctober 7, 2019

Yellow Vests

Emmanuel Macron will regret his failure to crack down on Islamists

It beggars belief that Mickaël Harpon was employed as a computer expert in the intelligence department at police HQ in Paris. It is also barely credible that when Christophe Castaner, France’s minister of the interior, addressed reporters hours after Harpon h…

bubmagOctober 7, 2019

Slavery Abolition

Let’s Have a Financial Crisis: First, We Need a Central Bank

Westerners have been for generations infused with a conviction that a nation’s central bank must, under threat of great ‘moral hazard’, be kept separate and independent of that nation’s government. The reasons are unclear, but since this mythology qualifies a…

bubmagOctober 7, 2019

Water Scarcity

The Winning Photos From The CIWEM Environmental Photographer Of The Year 2019, An International Showcase For The Very Best In Environmental Photography

The CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year showcases the very best in environmental photography. Highlighting the terrible impacts being wrought on our planet by its most dominant species the competition also celebrates humanitys innate ability to survi…

bubmagOctober 7, 2019

Plastic Pollution

Plastic Tide: Choking on Coke

Plastic pollution is suffocating our oceans, and leading to the destruction of multiple species of fish. One of the largest producers of plastic bottles - Coca-Cola - has promised to take steps to curb this environmental crisis. Are these empty promises or is…

bubmagOctober 7, 2019

Electric Scooter

TIER Mobility raises $60 million as electric scooter boom continues

Berlin-based TIER Mobility has raised $60 million in venture capital to expand its electric scooter sharing service, a sign of how bullish investors remain even as cities struggle to regulate the new transportation mode. Proponents hail electric scooters, an…

bubmagOctober 7, 2019

Geely

Lotus will soon source engines from a Volvo-Geely tie-up

With buyers becoming less and less concerned with what's actually under the hood, Volvo has decided to spinoff its engine department. Volvo announced Monday that it will transfer its engine operations to a new standalone company that will also include the en…

bubmagOctober 7, 2019

Recycling

Key Words: Plastic is not the ‘enemy,’ says Shinzo Abe; Japan uses 30 billion plastic bags each year

Plastics have been a great equalizer connecting farmers and consumers. And because they will be necessary in the future as well, we must not look on plastics as the enemy, nor give the cold shoulder to people who use them Thats the position of Japanese Prime…

bubmagOctober 7, 2019

North Korea Nuclear Talks

North Korea Walks Away from Nuclear Talks, but Maybe Not For Good

U.S.-North Korea nuclear talks have collapsed yet again, after Pyongyang angrily walked away, blaming Washington. But it does not necessarily mean the demise of the talks. Both North Korea and the U.S. have repeatedly walked away during the past year and a ha…

bubmagOctober 7, 2019

Black Hole

Milky Way galaxy’s center exploded 3.5M years ago

The Milky Way galaxy is home to all life as we know it, but about 3.5 million years ago, something strange and "dramatic" happened to it — a massive explosion in its center. According to a new study, the galaxy was hit with an energy flare, near an enormous …

bubmagOctober 7, 2019

The Most Important Presidential Election Question (That No One Ever Asks!)

Emmanuel Macron will regret his failure to crack down on Islamists

Let’s Have a Financial Crisis: First, We Need a Central Bank

The Winning Photos From The CIWEM Environmental Photographer Of The Year 2019, An International Showcase For The Very Best In Environmental Photography

Plastic Tide: Choking on Coke

TIER Mobility raises $60 million as electric scooter boom continues

Lotus will soon source engines from a Volvo-Geely tie-up

Key Words: Plastic is not the ‘enemy,’ says Shinzo Abe; Japan uses 30 billion plastic bags each year

North Korea Walks Away from Nuclear Talks, but Maybe Not For Good

Milky Way galaxy’s center exploded 3.5M years ago

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