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Is German Democracy Back to Normal?

Less than a year ago, concern mounted over the seemingly unstoppable rise of Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), as the party climbed to new heights in opinion polls. Only the Greens registered a similar rise in support. By September 2018, …

bubmagJune 5, 2019

Animal Protection

British authorities search for swan strangler after violent attack

A British animal protection group is looking for a woman accused of straddling a swan and strangling it to death in a public park. The Royal Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals is investigating the strange death after witness testimony claims a …

bubmagJune 5, 2019

Climate Change

As climate change makes disasters worse, philanthropy needs to think long term

In 2018 alone, the United States suffered 14 natural disasters, each of which caused more than a billion dollars’ worth of damage. The final total: $91 billion overall, although not all of the devastation has been officially tallied. That includes deaths and …

bubmagJune 5, 2019

Little Italy

Gangster Bedtime Stories

Photograph of the Navy Street gang in Brooklyn, New York, used as a prosecution exhibit at trial in 1918. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. I grew up on gangster stories. While other kids were hearing about the three little pigs and the old woman who liv…

bubmagJune 5, 2019

Blockchain

This girthy penis is buried deep inside the Ethereum blockchain (NSFW)

The Ethereum blockchain doesnt just power one of the worlds most popular cryptocurrencies it now perpetually verifies the existence of a girthy dong. Thats right. Swedish conceptual artists Ida Jonsson and Simon Saarinen say theyve buried the first ASCII pe…

bubmagJune 5, 2019

NASDAQ

Market Rallies After Fed Chief Shows Off Huge Wad Of Cash

NEW YORKAs the S&P advanced 0.9% the moment awestruck investors saw all the bills spread out in a dramatic fan, financial experts confirmed that the U.S. stock market rallied significantly Wednesday following the Federal Reserve chairman Jay Powells flamb…

bubmagJune 5, 2019

Brexit

Outside the Box: 8 stocks for contrarian investors

Breaking up is hard to do. Just ask the Brits. A large portion of the U.K. population wants out of the European Union. But politicians are finding it hard to implement their wishes. The result: Brexit drags on and on, wearing down business confidence and cl…

bubmagJune 5, 2019

NSA

NSA Urges Windows Users to Patch ‘BlueKeep’ Vulnerability

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) on Tuesday urged Windows users and administrators to immediately address the vulnerability tracked as BlueKeep and CVE-2019-0708. Many experts agree that its only a matter of time until the flaw is exploited in the wil…

bubmagJune 5, 2019

Global Warming

Piers Morgan got Trump to wear a Winston Churchill-style hat in a TV interview

Donald Trump tried on a a personalized version of Winston Churchill's signature hat when he was given it as a gift during a talk show appearance on his UK state visit. Piers Morgan, host of the ITV network's "Good Morning Britain" show, interviewed the US …

bubmagJune 5, 2019

Julian Assange

New Documentary Explores Chelsea Manning’s Fight To Live Her Truth

Filmmaker Tim Travers Hawkins aims to relay former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Mannings sense of principles and sacrifice in a new, sure-to-be-controversial documentary. XY Chelsea, which premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival in May and airs Fri…

bubmagJune 5, 2019

Is German Democracy Back to Normal?

British authorities search for swan strangler after violent attack

As climate change makes disasters worse, philanthropy needs to think long term

Gangster Bedtime Stories

This girthy penis is buried deep inside the Ethereum blockchain (NSFW)

Market Rallies After Fed Chief Shows Off Huge Wad Of Cash

Outside the Box: 8 stocks for contrarian investors

NSA Urges Windows Users to Patch ‘BlueKeep’ Vulnerability

Piers Morgan got Trump to wear a Winston Churchill-style hat in a TV interview

New Documentary Explores Chelsea Manning’s Fight To Live Her Truth

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