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Barack Obama

On Iran strategy, Donald Trump replaces Barack Obama’s mirage with containment

Donald Trump has a well-articulated strategy toward Iran. Like almost every other Republican candidate for president in 2016, he argued that President Barack Obama empowered Iran at the expense of Americas traditional allies and its own vital interests. Trump…

bubmagMay 20, 2019

CCTV

Metro wagons vandalized with graffiti days after ‘inauguration’ atop truck bed

Days after a top government minister, a mayoral candidate backed by ruling SYRIZA party and a bevy of local officials "inaugurated" four metro wagons loaded onto a truck outside a worksite in the northern city of Thessaloniki, vandals managed to spray paint g…

bubmagMay 20, 2019

Water Pollution

Environmentalists fear mine waste will hurt ‘butanding’

INTERACTION Whale sharks, which feed in waters around the Philippines, are known to be gentle giants of the sea and do not pose danger to humans. FERDINAND EDRALIN / CEBU DAILY NEWS DONSOL, SORSOGON, Philippines As the annual Butanding Festival here kicked o…

bubmagMay 19, 2019

Google

Report Claims Google Could Be Pulling Huawei’s Android License

Google has halted some of its business operations with Huawei, Reuters reported Sunday, in what would be a devasting hit to the Chinese telecommunications company. Huawei will no longer have access to Android updates and Google technical support beyond what …

bubmagMay 19, 2019

Star Wars

Game of Thrones petition reaches 1M signatures ahead of finale

Life is short, difficult and, most likely, ultimately meaningless. In this age of immediate fan service, its important to remember that you cant always get what you want. That goes double when it comes to the final season of a beloved television series (Im lo…

bubmagMay 19, 2019

Putin

The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Why Tensions With Iran Don’t Mean Iraq 2.0

We’re trying something new: a once-a-week national-security-focused edition of The Atlantic ’s signature politics newsletter. We’ll tell you what to keep an eye on this week, what our reporters are covering, and why the latest foreign-policy developments are …

bubmagMay 19, 2019

Global Warming

Carbon dioxide at highest levels for over 2.5 million years, expert warns of 100 years of disruption – Summerland Review

Researchers have announced that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere is now at levels not seen for at least 2.5 million years. We can all now claim part of the dubious honour of living in a time no other humans have ever experienced.…

bubmagMay 19, 2019

Chinese Economy

Adam Tooze: Democracy and Its Discontents: Weekend Reading

Weekend Reading: Adam Tooze is correct when he writes that "across the American political spectrum, if there is agreement on anything, it is on the need for a firmer line against China". The bombs-and-bullets people, the geopolitics people, and the blame-some…

bubmagMay 19, 2019

Donald Trump

The President and His Power to Pardon

This may leave you asking: What have these people done to merit a presidential pardon? Mr. Black, whose pardon the White House announcedlate on Wednesday, had the backing of Rush Limbaugh and Henry Kissinger, among others. But the erstwhile media mogul, who…

bubmagMay 19, 2019

Astroturfing

Many of the Brexit Party’s Twitter followers appear to be bots

Some of these accounts have been producing massive volumes of tweets focused on Brexit, and clearly in unrealistic amounts. One tweeted 823 times in the space of a day. Some are new, while others are from outside the UK. Regardless of behavior, the surge of n…

bubmagMay 19, 2019

On Iran strategy, Donald Trump replaces Barack Obama’s mirage with containment

Metro wagons vandalized with graffiti days after ‘inauguration’ atop truck bed

Environmentalists fear mine waste will hurt ‘butanding’

Report Claims Google Could Be Pulling Huawei’s Android License

Game of Thrones petition reaches 1M signatures ahead of finale

The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Why Tensions With Iran Don’t Mean Iraq 2.0

Carbon dioxide at highest levels for over 2.5 million years, expert warns of 100 years of disruption – Summerland Review

Adam Tooze: Democracy and Its Discontents: Weekend Reading

The President and His Power to Pardon

Many of the Brexit Party’s Twitter followers appear to be bots

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