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Economic Bubble

Peace In Our Time? Wonkagenda For Monday, Sept., 9, 2019

Morning Wonketariat! Here's some of the things we may be talking about today. On Saturday Trump shitposted that he canceled a super secret meeting at Camp David with Afghan Taliban leaders and Afghan President Ashraf Ghanni following the terrorist group's c…

bubmagSeptember 9, 2019

Obamacare

John Oliver Illustrates Why Filibusters Should No Longer Exist

John Oliver urges Democrats to get rid of the filibuster if they take control of the Senate, and the A.V. Club reports:Still, as Oliver noted, the growing call to abolish this 60-vote threshold (which, despite said fringes go-to Constitutional argument) is no…

bubmagSeptember 9, 2019

Super Komachi

Typhoon Faxai batters Japan, leading to a death and widespread travel disruption

One of the strongest typhoons in eastern Japan in recent years struck just east of the capital Tokyo on Monday, killing one woman, with record-breaking winds and stinging rain damaging buildings and disrupting transport. More than 160 flights were cancelled …

bubmagSeptember 9, 2019

Chinese Economy

UNEXPECTEDLY? China’s exports fall unexpectedly in August, as trade war continues to slam industri…

UNEXPECTEDLY? Chinas exports fall unexpectedly in August, as trade war continues to slam industrial economy. Furthermore, the much-reported 3.8 per cent depreciation of the yuan in August failed to stop the decline in exports despite Washingtons fears that i…

bubmagSeptember 9, 2019

Android

The Best Sub-$300 Robot Vacuum Just Got Even Cheaper

Amazon has discounted the already pretty affordable Roborock E25 robot vacuum, and now has it down to just $279. It's regularly priced at $299, but if you clip the on-page coupon, you can get another $20 off (which will be reflected at checkout), bringing it…

bubmagSeptember 9, 2019

Machine Learning

Texas says no to ransom demand as it recovers from a ‘coordinated ransomware attack’

Texas officials have said that none of the municipalities impacted by the crippling ransomware attack last month have yielded to the ransom demand. In its first update since August 20, the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) which is leading the …

bubmagSeptember 9, 2019

Cold War

Don Jr. and Ivanka are fighting a bitter “cold war” for prominence in the Trump dynasty: report

Ivanka Trump and her older brother, Donald Trump Jr., have represented a “good cop/bad cop” contrast in the Trump world. Ivanka has been trying to position herself as more of a right-wing intellectual and sort of a Millennial Peggy Noonan — her father has had…

bubmagSeptember 9, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Technology Ethics in Central Europe: A New Hope in Prague

In the business world, money might be the lingua franca to connect us all, but theres really no equivalent in academic and policy circles. Language barriers often mean different rates of concern for emerging issues, such as in techn…

bubmagSeptember 9, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Germany to resume training border police in Saudi Arabia

BERLIN - Germany says it will resume training border police in Saudi Arabia, after suspending the practice following the killing last year of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. A spokesman for Germanys Interior Ministry on Monday confirmed reports that the governme…

bubmagSeptember 9, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Germany to resume training border police in Saudi Arabia

Germany says it will resume training border police in Saudi Arabia, after suspending the practice following the killing last year of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. A spokesman for Germany's Interior Ministry on Monday confirmed reports that the government has d…

bubmagSeptember 9, 2019

Peace In Our Time? Wonkagenda For Monday, Sept., 9, 2019

John Oliver Illustrates Why Filibusters Should No Longer Exist

Typhoon Faxai batters Japan, leading to a death and widespread travel disruption

UNEXPECTEDLY? China’s exports fall unexpectedly in August, as trade war continues to slam industri…

The Best Sub-$300 Robot Vacuum Just Got Even Cheaper

Texas says no to ransom demand as it recovers from a ‘coordinated ransomware attack’

Don Jr. and Ivanka are fighting a bitter “cold war” for prominence in the Trump dynasty: report

Technology Ethics in Central Europe: A New Hope in Prague

Germany to resume training border police in Saudi Arabia

Germany to resume training border police in Saudi Arabia

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