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Animal Protection

It’s a mammal. It looks like an artichoke. And China is driving it toward extinction

The shopkeeper quickly scanned the traditional Chinese medicine market, looking for undercover police before she unlocked a desk drawer and dug out what looked like a clam shell, palm-sized and coffee-brown. It cures cancer, she said. The contraband was a s…

bubmagSeptember 1, 2019

Paris

Air traffic computer glitch delays all flights in France…

PARIS (AP) A computer breakdown briefly disrupted all air traffic in France, but flights are now gradually resuming. A spokesman for the civil aviation authority DGAC said the automatic flight plan system broke down Sunday morning and the reason is being inv…

bubmagSeptember 1, 2019

Alibaba

SpaceX Has Got Something ‘Better’ Than Secretive Area 51, Elon Musk Says

The tech mogul also spoke about the importance of sending exploratory missions to Mars, arguing that humanity should prepare for the possibility, however small, of something bad happening to our planet.Famous entrepreneur and Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk r…

bubmagSeptember 1, 2019

NSA

Thank The NSA For Their Ghidra Software Now Helping Firmware Reverse Engineering

Ghidra is the open-source reverse engineering tool published by the US National Security Agency as an alternative to existing decompilers/disassemblers and other reverse engineering utilities. As noted earlier this summer, a Google Summer of Code project has …

bubmagSeptember 1, 2019

Economic Bubble

SCJ: The Improving Japanese Consumer Will Boost This ETF

(Source - Pexels/Aleksandar Pasaric) The iShares MSCI Japan Small-Cap ETF (SCJ) has to be one of my favorite developed-world equity ETFs on the market today. It lacks the severe overvaluation risks of global large-caps and has financially clean companies wit…

bubmagSeptember 1, 2019

Monsanto

Roundup lawsuits shed light on Monsanto’s internal — and controversial — PR strategies

ST. LOUIS More than a year after Bayer gobbled it up, Monsanto has managed to stay in the headlines, thanks to a mountain of lawsuits that allege its moneymaking weedkiller Roundup causes cancer. Like Monsanto, Bayer insists the widely used product is safe, b…

bubmagSeptember 1, 2019

Links 9/1/19

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bubmagSeptember 1, 2019

New York City

Mr. Kim’s Lonely Fight to Preserve a Korean Tradition

Still, he added, most were busy studying for the SAT test. They dont have time for this, he said. Mr. Kim has had plenty of reasons to give up. Most years he spends $15,000 to $20,000 of his own money trying to kindle interest in the sport. He supplies all…

bubmagSeptember 1, 2019

Singapore

What lies beneath: Singapore plans a subterranean future

Singapore (AFP) - Space-starved Singapore has expanded outwards by building into the sea and upwards by constructing high-rises but planners are now looking underground as they seek new areas for growth. The nation has carefully managed its rapid growth in r…

bubmagSeptember 1, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

Brexit: EU’s top negotiator doubts no-deal can be avoided

The UK was warned once again on Sunday that the European Union cannot remove the Irish border backstop from the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement. The EU's top Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, said the plan B measure had to remain in place to protect the integri…

bubmagSeptember 1, 2019

It’s a mammal. It looks like an artichoke. And China is driving it toward extinction

Air traffic computer glitch delays all flights in France…

SpaceX Has Got Something ‘Better’ Than Secretive Area 51, Elon Musk Says

Thank The NSA For Their Ghidra Software Now Helping Firmware Reverse Engineering

SCJ: The Improving Japanese Consumer Will Boost This ETF

Roundup lawsuits shed light on Monsanto’s internal — and controversial — PR strategies

Mr. Kim’s Lonely Fight to Preserve a Korean Tradition

What lies beneath: Singapore plans a subterranean future

Brexit: EU’s top negotiator doubts no-deal can be avoided

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