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VR

Oculus VR cofounder Nate Mitchell is leaving Facebook

Nate Mitchell, one of the last remaining Oculus cofounders left at the Facebook-owned company, has announced that he is leaving after seven years. Having most recently headed up Oculus’s Rift team and the virtual reality products side of Facebook, Mitchell sh…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Brian Rudman: Why no debate over Big Brother network?

COMMENT: Reports that chairman Lester Levy and his team at Auckland Transport have appointed themselves Auckland's Big Brother, with plans for a unified spy network of 8,000 cameras, open to the police and bureaucrats, both local and national, had me reachi…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Holocaust

Toxic Holocaust announce new album Primal Future: 2019, share single “Chemical Warlords”: Stream

Purveyors of crossover thrash Toxic Holocaust are set to return with a new album, Primal Future: 2019. Along with the album announcement, the band has shared a lyric video for the first single, Chemical Warlords. Primal Future: 2019 arrives October 4th via E…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Elon Musk

What we learned from one of Jeffrey Epstein’s final interviews with a NYT reporter

(CNN)In one of Jeffrey Epstein's last interviews, he told a reporter for The New York Times that he had dirt on a number of famous people and that criminalizing sex with teenagers was a "cultural aberration." The interview with James B. Stewart, a Times colu…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Jerusalem Controversy

Most Israeli Jews back public buses on Shabbat and egalitarian prayer at Kotel

A majority of Israeli Jews want businesses to be permitted to open and public transportation to run on Shabbat, but do not prioritize these issues when they vote, according to a new study. Fully 60 percent of Israeli Jews believe public transportation should…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

China's Strategy

How The China Tariff War Affects The Stamp Market

The current tariff war between the USA and China has its roots in the fact that for decades we have allowed China unrestricted access to our markets. They took full advantage of this to develop themselves into the second most important economy in th…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Italy’s Salvini accepts cutting lawmakers, if followed by instant vote

ROME (Reuters) - Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Tuesday he would accept a proposal by ruling coalition partner the 5-Star Movement to slash the number of members of parliament, as long as elections were held immediately afterwards. Sal…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Riots

Wave American flag, sing national anthem…

Hong Kong seem to be heading to a 'Tianenmen-like' situation with thousands of protesters thronging the streets. Chinese media had already warned of potential terrorism rising in the country and even accused the US of supporting the riots. A video posted on t…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Putin

UPDATE 1-Ukraine’s president offers citizenship to Russian political refugees

(Adds expulsion of Ukrainian diplomat from Russia) KIEV, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a decree on Tuesday offering citizenship to Russians suffering political persecution, and also to foreigners who fought on Kiev's side …

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Holocaust

‘Glow’ Finally Gives Its Characters Space to Grapple With Racism

The gorgeous ladies of wrestling from Netflix's 80s-set series Glow have struggled with Big Life Questions (Who am I? What is my purpose?) since season 1. In between body slams and pile drivers, they've worked to find themselves and their place in the world. …

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Oculus VR cofounder Nate Mitchell is leaving Facebook

Toxic Holocaust announce new album Primal Future: 2019, share single “Chemical Warlords”: Stream

What we learned from one of Jeffrey Epstein’s final interviews with a NYT reporter

Most Israeli Jews back public buses on Shabbat and egalitarian prayer at Kotel

How The China Tariff War Affects The Stamp Market

Italy’s Salvini accepts cutting lawmakers, if followed by instant vote

Wave American flag, sing national anthem…

UPDATE 1-Ukraine’s president offers citizenship to Russian political refugees

‘Glow’ Finally Gives Its Characters Space to Grapple With Racism

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