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Old-Age Poverty

Why Is What Was Once Affordable to Many

With these speculative and risk management skills accessible only to the wealthy, no wonder only the wealthy have gained purchasing power in the 21st century. Let’s start with an excerpt from a recent personal account by the insightful energy/systems analyst…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Solar Storm

A Large Solar Storm Will Hit Earth on July 31 or August

An absolutely massive hole has formed in the upper atmosphere of the Sun, and our planet will align with that hole later this week. Once the alignment happens, Earth will be bombarded by a solar storm, and nobody is quite sure yet how bad it will be. If the…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Donald Trump

Campaign Aides Let the UAE Screen Trump’s ‘America First’ Energy Speech, Made Changes at Their Request

Aides to now-President Donald Trump let senior United Arab Emirates officials look at and edit a 2016 campaign trail speech in which he laid out his America First energy policy, ABC News reported on Monday. According to ABC News, House Oversight Committee of…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Putin

Why does Alexei Navalny rattle the Kremlin?

Russia's most prominent opposition leader Alexei Navalny was discharged from hospital and returned to prison on Monday against the wishes of his doctor, who said he may have been poisoned. The critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin was taken to a hospita…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Trickle-Down

Is Ayelet Shaked just a younger, female version of Bibi Netanyahu?

In conversations with close associates and with the media, Ayelet Shaked has sought to portray her socioeconomic ideas as neoliberal. She’s a believer in the trickle-down theory of economics whose ideas are “close to Netanyahu’s,” she says. >> Subscrib…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Senate bows to Donald Trump vetoes, allows Saudi arms sales

Votes to override Trump’s vetoes failed, 45-40, 45-39 and 46-41. A two-thirds vote was needed in each case. (File Photo) The Senate failed Monday in a bid to override a trio of vetoes issued by President Donald Trump, allowing the administration to move forw…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Yellow Vests

Russian Embassy in UK Slams London Assessment of Unauthorized Moscow Rally as Biased

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United Kingdom was not objective in its assessment of the situation around the recent unauthorized rally in Moscow, the spokesperson of the Russian Embassy in London told journalists on Sunday.On Sunday, the UK Foreign Office expressed …

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Palestine

‘Whoever’s on Israel’s side, we’re against’: Erdogan slams Netanyahu & US over Palestinian killings

“We do not approve of silence on the state terror that Israel blatantly carries out in Palestine,” Erdogan said on Sunday, addressing senior provincial officials of his Justice and Development Party in Ankara, according to the Iranian PressTV. Also on rt.com…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

The inane, obscene ‘tool of the Kremlin’ assault on Mitch McConnell

There was a time when the left considered McCarthyism the worst of all political tactics. That was before it became useful to question Mitch McConnells loyalty to his country. The Senate majority leaders offense is blocking Democratic-sponsored election-secu…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Yemen Civil War

Senate fails to override Trump’s veto on arms sales to Saudis

The US Senate on Monday failed to override President Donald Trump's vetoes of resolutions blocking his arms deal with Saudi Arabia, The Hill reported. Senators voted 45-40 on the first of three veto override attempts, falling well short of the two-thirds maj…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Why Is What Was Once Affordable to Many

A Large Solar Storm Will Hit Earth on July 31 or August

Campaign Aides Let the UAE Screen Trump’s ‘America First’ Energy Speech, Made Changes at Their Request

Why does Alexei Navalny rattle the Kremlin?

Is Ayelet Shaked just a younger, female version of Bibi Netanyahu?

Senate bows to Donald Trump vetoes, allows Saudi arms sales

Russian Embassy in UK Slams London Assessment of Unauthorized Moscow Rally as Biased

‘Whoever’s on Israel’s side, we’re against’: Erdogan slams Netanyahu & US over Palestinian killings

The inane, obscene ‘tool of the Kremlin’ assault on Mitch McConnell

Senate fails to override Trump’s veto on arms sales to Saudis

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