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Bernie Sanders’s proposal to make college free and cancel all student loan debt, explained

Sanders wants to cancel all student loan debt. Sen. Bernie Sanders’s proposal to make college free in the United States just got bigger: He wants to erase all student debt, too. All $1.6 trillion of it. The Vermont senator unveiled the most ambitious higher e…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Plastic Pollution

Take two: Upgraded Ocean Cleanup barrier returns to take on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

After a stint on the sidelines, The Ocean Cleanup Project is bouncing back into action following a few upgrades to its trash-catching system. The team was forced to haul in its huge floating barriers for repairs earlier in the year, and now after making a few…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

NATO

Iraqi Kurds seek Canadian military help again after being frozen out – Global News

Canada is being invited to once again provide training to Iraq‘s Kurdish security forces, who worked shoulder-to-shoulder with Canadian soldiers in the war against the Islamic State group before being frozen out in 2017. READ MORE: Canadian forces in Iraq …

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Little Italy

256: 72 Hours in San Francisco – Where to Eat, Sleep, and Get About, Then Tailor to What You Love

“San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus of the world one of the really urbane communities in the United States one of the truly cosmopolitan places and for many, many years, it always has had a warm welcome for human beings from all over the worl…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Feudalism

The Lessons Of Rome: Our Neofeudal Oligarchy

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Our society has a legal structure of self-rule and ownership of capital, but in reality it is a Neofeudal Oligarchy. The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000 is not an easy, breezy read…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Economic Bubble

Currency, Credit and Crisis: Honohan’s account of how our economic bubble burst

He has written a comprehensive volume, part-memoir but largely an analysis of the pitfalls of central banking in Ireland and Europe, with much sage guidance for the avoidance of future trouble in both locations.Ireland has, in almost a century of independence…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Orangutan

Fighting extinction: What you can do to help endangered animals

Catching a glimpse of a tiger in an Indian forest. Watching an orang-utan snap off a tree branch to use as a scratching stick. Seeing a black rhino nuzzle its young. They're all astonishing sights available to travellers today, but which we're all sickeningly…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

George Orwell’s Dystopian Nightmare in China

It has become fairly cliché to call Chinas surveillance stateits artificial intelligence-driven facial recognition, the new social credit system, its cultural policing and re-education camps for Uyghur minoritiessomething right out of George Orwells Nineteen …

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Trade War

Report: Trump Admin Considering Ordering All US 5G Gear Be Made Outside of China

Donald Trumps administration is considering issuing requirements that would mandate all 5G telecommunications equipment installed in the U.S. be manufactured outside China, according to a Sunday report in the Wall Street Journal. That would be a significant …

bubmagJune 24, 2019

eSports

A Look At The ESports Trend And The Main Companies Involved

My goal in this article is to give an introduction and overview for the rapidly growing eSports sector and the main players. What is Esports? Esports (also known as electronic sports, e-sports, or eSports) is a form of competition using video games. Another…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Bernie Sanders’s proposal to make college free and cancel all student loan debt, explained

Take two: Upgraded Ocean Cleanup barrier returns to take on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Iraqi Kurds seek Canadian military help again after being frozen out – Global News

256: 72 Hours in San Francisco – Where to Eat, Sleep, and Get About, Then Tailor to What You Love

The Lessons Of Rome: Our Neofeudal Oligarchy

Currency, Credit and Crisis: Honohan’s account of how our economic bubble burst

Fighting extinction: What you can do to help endangered animals

Report: Trump Admin Considering Ordering All US 5G Gear Be Made Outside of China

A Look At The ESports Trend And The Main Companies Involved

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