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Protectionism

Singapore slashes 2019 GDP forecast as global risks expand

Singapore slashed its full-year economic growth forecast on Tuesday as global conditions were seen worsening and data confirmed the slowest growth rate in a decade amid mounting fears of a recession in the city-state. The government cut its forecast range fo…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Julian Assange

The Prosecution of Julian Assange Affects Us All

With the indictment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the imprisonment of whistleblower Chelsea Manning, we are seeing the US governments blatant attack on the First Amendment. This assault now is officially acknowledged by a US federal court, …

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Electric Car

Platinum Giant Wants In on Batteries to Ease Electric Car Threat

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Bees

An intense process: The California almond’s journey from orchard to grocery shelf

SACRAMENTO, CALIF.—All across California’s hot, flat Central Valley, the almond trees wait. Their gnarled branches are heavy with dusty green almond hulls, fuzzy to the touch. In two weeks’ time, the hulls will split, revealing the porous, caramel-coloured s…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Water Pollution

[ASAP] Highly Efficient Degradation of Polyacrylamide by an Fe-Doped Ce 0.75 Zr 0.25 O 2 Solid Solution/CF Composite Cathode in a Heterogeneous Electro-Fenton Process

Polyacrylamide (PAM) in environmental water has become a major problem in water pollution management due to its high molecular mass, corrosion resistance, high viscosity, and nonabsorption by soil. The composite of Fe-doped Ce0.75Zr0.25O2 solid solution (Fe-C…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

China's Strategy

Xi Gets Tougher on Trump After New Tariff Threat

BEIJING (AP) — Facing another U.S. tariff hike, Chinese President Xi Jinping is getting tougher with Washington instead of backing down. Beijing fired what economists called a “warning shot” at Washington by letting its yuan currency weaken in response to Pr…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Climate Change

The Newest Audience for Democrats’ Climate Change Plans: Iowa Farmers

As in other years, Democratic presidential candidates hitting the Iowa State Fair this weekend came armed with policy ideas targeted at rural farmers who dominate the state. The difference this time: Those proposals were about climate change. In a sign of ho…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Hiroshima

Asteroid bigger than Empire State and Giza pyramid to pass by Earth – Times of India

Asteroids flying past Earth, even big ones, are now more common than before especially since Nasas jet propulsion laboratory (JPL) can track these celestial objects. Scientists believe that its only a matter of time before one of them eventually gets pulled …

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Geely

Chinese car sales continue downturn as demand shrinks; Geely sales drop 20% for 4th straight month

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

China's Strategy

China’s Xi gets tougher on Trump after new tariff threat

BEIJING (AP) Facing another U.S. tariff hike, Chinese President Xi Jinping is getting tougher with Washington instead of backing down. Beijing fired what economists called a "warning shot" at Washington by letting its yuan currency weaken in response to Pres…

bubmagAugust 13, 2019

Singapore slashes 2019 GDP forecast as global risks expand

The Prosecution of Julian Assange Affects Us All

Platinum Giant Wants In on Batteries to Ease Electric Car Threat

An intense process: The California almond’s journey from orchard to grocery shelf

[ASAP] Highly Efficient Degradation of Polyacrylamide by an Fe-Doped Ce 0.75 Zr 0.25 O 2 Solid Solution/CF Composite Cathode in a Heterogeneous Electro-Fenton Process

Xi Gets Tougher on Trump After New Tariff Threat

The Newest Audience for Democrats’ Climate Change Plans: Iowa Farmers

Asteroid bigger than Empire State and Giza pyramid to pass by Earth – Times of India

Chinese car sales continue downturn as demand shrinks; Geely sales drop 20% for 4th straight month

China’s Xi gets tougher on Trump after new tariff threat

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