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Astroturfing

It’s all GOOD – 8 Sites Sharing Good News

One great irony of the World Wide Web is that the wonder of “information at our fingertips” brings with it various challenges, including fake news, astroturfing, cyber bullying, and the rapid proliferation of bad news. The latter, at least, is not so much abo…

bubmagSeptember 3, 2019

Scotland

Man jailed for shouting ‘heil Hitler’ and ‘go have a sausage sandwich’ at Jewish family in London

A man has been jailed for shouting, one, two, three, heil Hitler! at a Jewish family on a London bus. David Aherne also told the family to go have a sausage sandwich during the antisemitic rant aboard the 149 bus in Hackney. After police were called, Aherne…

bubmagSeptember 3, 2019

Panda

10 things you need to know today: September 3, 2019

The man identified as the gunman who went on a deadly rampage in West Texas on Saturday made "rambling" calls to police and the FBI before killing seven people, but he made no threats, authorities said Monday. The alleged killer, 36-year-old Seth Ator, been i…

bubmagSeptember 3, 2019

Super Komachi

Rajnath Singh briefed on F-15 fighter jets in Japan

TOKYO: Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday visited the Hamamatsu Air Base in Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture, where he was briefed on the functioning of F-15 fighter aircraft and Kawasaki Trainer plane. "At the Hamamatsu Airbase in Japan, I had a goo…

bubmagSeptember 3, 2019

Food Industry

Sabah to introduce heavier penalties to curb fish-bombing

Sabah Agriculture and Food Industry Minister Junz Wong, who is also the Tanjung Aru assemblyman, (centre), being greeted as he arrives at Pulau Gaya, off Kota Kinabalu, today. KOTA KINABALU: Sabah hopes to be rid of the perennial problem of fish-bombing by i…

bubmagSeptember 3, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

14 days to go: The 9 factors that will decide the Israeli election

Three months of election campaigning have passed and, like soldiers stuck in the mud of the trenches in the Great War, the front lines have barely moved. The polls are static and no major issue seems to be motivating voters. It’s a phony election, devoid of n…

bubmagSeptember 3, 2019

Slavery Abolition

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 538

This is the grave of John Bell. Born in 1796 near Nashville, Bell came from a relatively prosperous family for the Tennessee frontier. He went to Cumberland College, graduating in 1814. He then studied the law and was admitted to the bar in 1816, starting a…

bubmagSeptember 3, 2019

Palestine

How to See Palestine Whole

Francis Bedford, Jerusalem: General View from the Mount of Olives (April 6, 1862) Albumen silver print 3 7/8 × 5 1/16 in., from The Holy Land, Egypt, Constantinople, Athens, Etc. Etc., 1866, pl. 14, (image via J. Paul Getty Museum, Open Content program) What…

bubmagSeptember 3, 2019

Machine Learning

Behind the Rise of China’s Facial-Recognition Giants

Unfamiliar faces arent welcome at Beijing public housing projects. To prevent illegal subletting, many have facial recognition systems that allow entry only to residents and certain delivery staff, according to state news agency Xinhua. Each of the citys 59 p…

bubmagSeptember 3, 2019

Xi Jinping

10 things you need to know before the opening bell

Reuters Here is what you need to know. 1. The pound plunged to a 2-year low after Boris Johnson threatened a general election, fanning fears of more Brexit chaos. Sterling slumped 0.6% against the dollar to $1.1991, the first time it has dropped below $1.20…

bubmagSeptember 3, 2019

It’s all GOOD – 8 Sites Sharing Good News

Man jailed for shouting ‘heil Hitler’ and ‘go have a sausage sandwich’ at Jewish family in London

10 things you need to know today: September 3, 2019

Rajnath Singh briefed on F-15 fighter jets in Japan

Sabah to introduce heavier penalties to curb fish-bombing

14 days to go: The 9 factors that will decide the Israeli election

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 538

How to See Palestine Whole

Behind the Rise of China’s Facial-Recognition Giants

10 things you need to know before the opening bell

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