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Super Heroes

Marvel’s Spider-Verse #1 Includes Spidersona Fan Art | CBR

"Anyone can wear the mask" was a central message of 2018's popular animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. This message prompted many fans of the film to create their own versions of the wall-crawler, which have come to be known as "Spidersonas." Ma…

bubmagOctober 2, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

Can Canada Ward Off a Populist Surge?

Richard Warnica is a feature writer for the National Post in Toronto. LONDON, Ontario On a hot day in early September, Maxime Bernier stood in line at a Booster Juice waiting for a smoothie. Bernier, who is 56 years old, looks tall in person. He has graying …

bubmagOctober 2, 2019

Feudalism

Preventing Digital Feudalism

By exploiting technologies that were originally developed by the public sector, digital platform companies have acquired a market position that allows them to extract massive rents from consumers and workers alike. Reforming the digital economy so that it ser…

bubmagOctober 2, 2019

Big Data

How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age

8. Mission critical Amid the sea of acronyms in Officer Miller and Dietzs arrest reports from Pacific County CLAIMS, CIS, IDENT, NCIC, TECS one database name sticks out: CLEAR, short for Consolidated Lead Evaluation and Reporting. While the other databases t…

bubmagOctober 2, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Jamal Khashoggi Was My Fiancé. A Year After His Murder, I’m Still Fighting for Justice

The morning of Oct. 2, 2018, was the last day I would wake up to a normal life like everyone else, full of hopes and desires. Who would have known that it would be the last day I saw my fiancé, Jamal Khashoggi? Who would have known that when I…

bubmagOctober 2, 2019

Venezuela

Colombia Diary: Under Heavy Manners

In Colombia as elsewhere, the commodification of higher education has led to widespread systemic corruption, and on September 23, students from the Universidad Distrital in Bogotá took to the streets to protest an egregious case of embezzlement, in which, acc…

bubmagOctober 2, 2019

Big Data

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When it comes to SIM only deals, there constantly appears to be more choice, more offers, and more networks promising the best tariffs around - that also means it's getting harder to pick the right one. If you're looking for an affordable SIMO from a name y…

bubmagOctober 2, 2019

BUK-Missile

Dutch Lawmakers Require Probe Into Ukraine’s Role in MH17 Crash

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Lawmakers of the Dutch parliament have required that the government launch a further investigation into the role of Kiev in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Ukraine, focusing on the Ukraine's refusal to close the airspace des…

bubmagOctober 2, 2019

Korean Peace Talks

US Urges North Korea to ‘Refrain From Provocations’ After Pyongyang Launches Missile – Reports

On Wednesday morning North Korea launched a ballistic missile that fell in Japans exclusive economic zone, hours after announcing it would resume denuclearisation talks with the United States.The United States called on Pyongyang on Wednesday to "refrain from…

bubmagOctober 2, 2019

Nukes

U.S. urges restraint after North Korea fires ballistic missile

ROME (Reuters) - The United States called on Pyongyang on Wednesday to “refrain from provocations” and remain committed to nuclear negotiations after North Korea fired a ballistic missile off its east coast. “We call on (North Korea) to refrain from provoca…

bubmagOctober 2, 2019

Marvel’s Spider-Verse #1 Includes Spidersona Fan Art | CBR

Can Canada Ward Off a Populist Surge?

Preventing Digital Feudalism

How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age

Jamal Khashoggi Was My Fiancé. A Year After His Murder, I’m Still Fighting for Justice

Colombia Diary: Under Heavy Manners

Get unlimited minutes, texts and 100GB data with EE’s new big data SIM only deals

Dutch Lawmakers Require Probe Into Ukraine’s Role in MH17 Crash

US Urges North Korea to ‘Refrain From Provocations’ After Pyongyang Launches Missile – Reports

U.S. urges restraint after North Korea fires ballistic missile

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