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Yellow Vests

Macron Loads 2020 Budget With Tax Cuts to Appease Yellow Vests

(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. The French government presented a 2020 budget to deliver the tax-cuts President Emmanuel Macron promised to the Yellow Vest protesters, marking…

bubmagSeptember 27, 2019

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The Marketing Book Podcast: “The Invisible Brand” by William Ammerman

William Ammerman is Executive Vice President of Digital Media at Engaged Media Inc. and has previously held leadership positions with Tribune Media, Hearst Television, and Capitol Broadcasting. Over his career, he has managed digital advertising for hundreds …

bubmagSeptember 27, 2019

Refugees

Two Rohingya killed in gun battle with Bangladesh border guards

By Mohammad Nurul Islam Cox's Bazar, BANGLADESH (Reuters) - Two Rohingya refugees were killed in a gun battle with Bangladeshi border guards as they tried to cross into Bangladesh from Myanmar on Friday, officials said. More than 730,000 Rohingya refugees l…

bubmagSeptember 27, 2019

Donald Trump

Bernie Sanders: This is an outrage on top of an outrage

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bubmagSeptember 27, 2019

Palestine

Mahatma Gandhi’s 80-year-old letter wishing Jews “era of peace” unveiled in Israel

JERUSALEM: A short handwritten letter by Mahatma Gandhi 80-years-ago on the same day the World War II broke out, wishing the "afflicted (Jewish) people" an "era of peace", has been unveiled for the first time by the National Library of Israel. Gandhi wrote t…

bubmagSeptember 27, 2019

Bees

Thinking out of the beebox

Bees dont discriminate between men and women when they sting. Then why should we wonder if working with bees is more suitable for men or women, jokes Kalpana-taiin Warli, the spoken language of Adivasis living in the mountainous and coastal areas near the Mah…

bubmagSeptember 27, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

Snowden in the Labyrinth

Permanent Record Metropolitan, 339 pp., $30.00 1. A Moment of Vision In Robert Sheckley’s 1978 short story “Is That What People Do?,” a man named Eddie Quintero buys himself a pair of binoculars from an army and navy surplus outlet, “because with them he h…

bubmagSeptember 27, 2019

Holocaust

5 Times Instagram Influencers Made The World A Dumber Place

At least those misguided Pokemon Goers were following the noble ideal of trying to be the very best, like no one ever was. Sadly, the same sort of boneheaded behavior occurs with increasing frequency at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial. But unlike the Auschwitz…

bubmagSeptember 27, 2019

Christianity

10 Slaves Who Became Roman Catholic Saints

From the very beginning, Christianity has had a complicated relationship with slavery. Many of the early Christians in the first centuries of the Church were slaves, including bishops, martyrs, evangelists, and even popes. Celsus, a 2nd Century pagan, even ri…

bubmagSeptember 27, 2019

Korean Peace Talks

North Korea Urges Trump to Make a ‘Bold Decision’ and Produce a Breakthrough in Nuclear Diplomacy

(SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea said Friday it wants President Donald Trump to make a “wise option and bold decision” to produce a breakthrough in stalled nuclear diplomacy, in an escalation of pressure on the U.S. ahead of an expected resumption of talks.…

bubmagSeptember 27, 2019

Macron Loads 2020 Budget With Tax Cuts to Appease Yellow Vests

The Marketing Book Podcast: “The Invisible Brand” by William Ammerman

Two Rohingya killed in gun battle with Bangladesh border guards

Bernie Sanders: This is an outrage on top of an outrage

Mahatma Gandhi’s 80-year-old letter wishing Jews “era of peace” unveiled in Israel

Thinking out of the beebox

Snowden in the Labyrinth

5 Times Instagram Influencers Made The World A Dumber Place

10 Slaves Who Became Roman Catholic Saints

North Korea Urges Trump to Make a ‘Bold Decision’ and Produce a Breakthrough in Nuclear Diplomacy

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