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Donald Trump

El Paso mayor: Trump’s visit is not a political one

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bubmagAugust 6, 2019

AR-15

Dayton Shooter Used AR-15 Pistol, Smaller Version of Popular Rifle (Wall Street Journal)

memeorandum is an auto-generated summary of the stories that US political commentators are discussing online right now. Unlike sister sites Techmeme and Mediagazer, it is not a human-edited news outlet, but rather a media-monitoring tool for sophisticated ne…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Slavery Abolition

“Heading Towards A Waterfall” – Fourth Turning Economics

Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, In retrospect, the spark might seem as ominous as a financial crash, as ordinary as a national election, or as trivial as a Tea Party. The catalyst will unfold according to a basic Crisis dynamic that unde…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Gundam

How Gundam Wing Became a Global Phenomenon

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Bees

Planting wildflowers at roadsides holds the key to saving the great British bumblebee

Roadside verges may be better for bees and butterflies than fields in the countryside and could help save key British species. The verges of roads are more attractive to pollinators like bumblebees and hoverflies because they have more wild flowers than fiel…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Air Pollution

Author Correction: Declines in mental health associated with air pollution and temperature variability in China

Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

Mexico urges tighter US gun control after deadly El Paso shooting

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has urged the United States to "control the indiscriminate sale of weapons" after a mass shooting that killed 22 people, including eight Mexicans in the southern state of Texas. The appeal on Monday came after …

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

eSports

Two Women Say They Were Sexually Assaulted At Red Bull’s Evo 2019 Party

Last night, Red Bull hosted its annual official after-party for the Evolution Championship Series at the HyperX Esports Arena, a venue at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas. This morning, two women have come forward to describe having been sexually assaulted while …

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Alibaba

Chinese rock, just another commodity

In Pictures Ltd · Corbis · Getty Cui Jian, godfather of Chinese rock, drew 30,000 fans to the Workers Stadium in Beijing on 30 September last year for a concert that was also a lesson in contemporary history. When he launched into his signature tune Yì Wú Su…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Silk Road

Rail caravan from China

The first freight train from China to the UK arrives at the London Eurohub depot in Barking this January Chris Ratcliffe · Bloomberg · Getty Chinas president Xi Jinping must have been pleased with the success of the first international forum on its new Silk…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

El Paso mayor: Trump’s visit is not a political one

Dayton Shooter Used AR-15 Pistol, Smaller Version of Popular Rifle (Wall Street Journal)

“Heading Towards A Waterfall” – Fourth Turning Economics

How Gundam Wing Became a Global Phenomenon

Planting wildflowers at roadsides holds the key to saving the great British bumblebee

Author Correction: Declines in mental health associated with air pollution and temperature variability in China

Mexico urges tighter US gun control after deadly El Paso shooting

Two Women Say They Were Sexually Assaulted At Red Bull’s Evo 2019 Party

Chinese rock, just another commodity

Rail caravan from China

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