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Julian Assange

Dangerous Detention: Julian Assange in Belmarsh Prison

Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Much ink has been spilt in textbooks describing situations where autocratic states can behave badly. They abuse rights; they ignore international law and they ride roughshod over conventions. Liberal democracies may boast that …

bubmagOctober 3, 2019

The Queen

Sarah Ferguson to make royal history when Princess Beatrice weds thanks to change in marriage law

Sarah Ferguson will make royal history when her daughter Princess Beatrice gets married to fiancé Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, thanks to a recent change in the way the church records marriages. The Duchess of York, 59, is to become the first mother of the bride to…

bubmagOctober 3, 2019

Astroturfing

‘It’s Gotta Be Bernie’: Democracy, Mass Politics and Our Next Organizer-in-Chief

Drawing By Nathaniel St. Clair Leftists are fighting, as they do, over which member of the Senate Democratic leadership is best prepared to lead them to the holy land (Denmark, basically). Its important, then, to take a step back and acknowledge what we can:…

bubmagOctober 3, 2019

Checkpoint

Berlin TV Tower turns 50

With its iconic glittering sphere, the TV Tower looks over the once divided city that has been reunited since 1990. The 365-meter-high (1,198-foot-high) Fernsehturm on Alexander Platz in East Berlin was almost 220 meters taller than West Berlin's broadcasting…

bubmagOctober 3, 2019

Jerusalem Controversy

Demi Lovato reacts to backlash of ‘spiritual experience’ being baptized in Israel’s Jordan River

Demi Lovato has reacted to backlash she has received over her 'spiritual' experience in Israel including being baptized in the Jordan River. Many on social media blasted the 26-year-old songstress - who suffered a near-fatal drug overdose in July of 2018 - f…

bubmagOctober 3, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Jasper, the face of future

At SP Robotics Maker Lab in Nallagandla, Jasper greets visitors at entrance. Standing at 4.5 feet tall, she is a six-wheel 30 kilogram bluetooth controlled delivery robot that can carry upto 50 kilogram of items in her belly. Say hello to Jasper; meet my new …

bubmagOctober 3, 2019

NSA

Rajoana row: Won’t rest even if I have to fight alone, says Ravneet Singh Bittu

Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu While the Union Home Ministry is yet to officially confirm whether Balwant Singh Rajoanas death sentence has been commuted to life imprisonment, Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu on Wednesday said he would not rest until he foug…

bubmagOctober 3, 2019

Holocaust

5 Infuriating Luxuries Only Available To The Ultra-Rich

Located in a decommissioned missile silo somewhere outside Concordia, Kansas, the complex features 15 stories of doomsday swank. It's equipped with its own power system, hydroponic gardens, fish farm, rations, and "various firearms" for the special-forces-tra…

bubmagOctober 3, 2019

Brexit

EU and Ireland sceptical of a Brexit breakthrough after PM Johnson’s offer

By Conor Humphries and Gabriela Baczynska DUBLIN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union and Ireland said on Thursday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit proposals were unlikely to yield a deal, with Dublin bluntly warning that Britain was heading tow…

bubmagOctober 3, 2019

Hiroshima

India-Pakistan nuclear war could kill 100 million

The year is 2025 and militants have attacked India's parliament, killing most of its leaders. New Delhi retaliates by sending tanks into the part of Kashmir controlled by Pakistan. Fearing it will be overrun, Islamabad hits the invading forces with its battl…

bubmagOctober 3, 2019

Dangerous Detention: Julian Assange in Belmarsh Prison

Sarah Ferguson to make royal history when Princess Beatrice weds thanks to change in marriage law

‘It’s Gotta Be Bernie’: Democracy, Mass Politics and Our Next Organizer-in-Chief

Berlin TV Tower turns 50

Demi Lovato reacts to backlash of ‘spiritual experience’ being baptized in Israel’s Jordan River

Jasper, the face of future

Rajoana row: Won’t rest even if I have to fight alone, says Ravneet Singh Bittu

5 Infuriating Luxuries Only Available To The Ultra-Rich

EU and Ireland sceptical of a Brexit breakthrough after PM Johnson’s offer

India-Pakistan nuclear war could kill 100 million

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