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Matteo Salvini

Market Extra: Italian bond yields jump, bank shares fall as Rome, EU head for budget showdown

The possibility of a budget fight between Rome and Brussels is rattling investors again. Market participants dumped Italian government bonds, lifting their yields, in favor of safer assets this week on the growing danger of a clash over the Italian governme…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Google

Walmart hires former Google, Microsoft and Amazon exec Suresh Kumar as new CTO

Walmart announced today it has hired former Google, Microsoft and Amazon veteran Suresh Kumar in the newly created position of Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer — a role that will report directly to Walmart CEO Doug McMillon. The CTO posi…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Belt and Road

Synergising BRI with India’s development strategies top agenda: outgoing Chinese envoy

Luo Zhaohui is likely to be replaced by Sun Weidong, who has earlier served as the Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Synergising the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with India’s development strategies and reaching “early harvests of boundary talks” are top on th…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

AR-15

JWR’s Recommendations of the Week:

Here are JWR’s Recommendations of the Week for various media and tools of interest to SurvivalBlog readers. This week the focus is on magazine storage. (See the Gear & Grub section.) Books: How to Diagnose and Repair Automotive Electrical Systems (Motor…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Astroturfing

Chevron lobbyist pushes secretive campaign against electric cars in Arizona

Oil and gas company Chevron recently announced that it’s bringing electric vehicle chargers to its gas stations meanwhile, one of its lobbyists is spurring a fight against EV infrastructure in Arizona. A Chevron lobbyist is persuading retirees of the company…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Cold War

China could unleash a trump card in the tech Cold War

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Belt and Road

Sri Lanka signs port deal with India, Japan

Colombo-Sri Lanka on Tuesday signed a deal with India and Japan to develop a deep-sea container terminal in the country that has seen increasing forays by China which has taken a strategic port on a 99-year lease that has worried New Delhi. The three countri…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Hrant Dink

New snake species in Europe named after a long-forgotten Iron Age kingdom

An international team of scientists identified the snake and its range, which includes Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Iraq, Iran, and Russia including a small region extending into the corner of Europe. Based on the genetic and morphological data, the …

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

U.S. Supreme Court takes up Mexican border shooting dispute

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether the family of a Mexican teenager fatally shot while on Mexican soil by a U.S. Border Patrol agent who fired from across the border in Texas can pursue a civi…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Virtual Reality

Where to Find Public Domain Pictures and Video Clips

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Market Extra: Italian bond yields jump, bank shares fall as Rome, EU head for budget showdown

Walmart hires former Google, Microsoft and Amazon exec Suresh Kumar as new CTO

Synergising BRI with India’s development strategies top agenda: outgoing Chinese envoy

JWR’s Recommendations of the Week:

Chevron lobbyist pushes secretive campaign against electric cars in Arizona

China could unleash a trump card in the tech Cold War

Sri Lanka signs port deal with India, Japan

New snake species in Europe named after a long-forgotten Iron Age kingdom

U.S. Supreme Court takes up Mexican border shooting dispute

Where to Find Public Domain Pictures and Video Clips

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