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Electric Scooter

France is banning electric scooters from sidewalks

Over the last few years, the electric scooter craze has hit Paris big time. Lime, Bird, and Jump (owned by Uber) all operate electric scooter services in the city. It is estimated that there are currently 15,000 electric scooters in Paris right now, with up t…

bubmagMay 6, 2019

Electric Scooter

France is banning electric scooters from sidewalks

Over the last few years, the electric scooter craze has hit Paris big time. Lime, Bird, and Jump (owned by Uber) all operate electric scooter services in the city. It is estimated that there are currently 15,000 electric scooters in Paris right now, with up t…

bubmagMay 6, 2019

Yellow Vests

Online Service Allows You to Hire Someone to Attend a Protest in Your Place

Ever wish you could attend a protest, but couldn’t do so because of location, timing or other constraints? Well, thanks to Wistand, an online platform that allows people to hire proxies to protest on their behalf anytime, anywhere, you can get involved and su…

bubmagMay 6, 2019

NSA

U.S. Deploys Aircraft Carrier, Bombers To Send ‘Unmistakable Message’ To Iran

The United States will send an aircraft carrier and a bomber task force to the Middle East in response to “troubling and escalatory indications and warnings” from Iran, national security advisor John Bolton announced on Sunday. NEW: US is deploying an aircra…

bubmagMay 6, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

Germany’s refugee intake begins to boost economy as settlers soothe country’s worker shortage

In his native Syria, Mohammed Kassim worked as an electrician. But having learned the trade informally, he lacked the credentials to show for it. Now, in his adopted homeland, the 30-year-old is receiving the training he never had and he is getting paid to …

bubmagMay 6, 2019

Singapore

Warmongers Bolton & Pompeo send Aircraft Carrier to Menace Iran, still Hoping for Confrontation

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Uber warmongerers John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, somehow the National Security Adviser and Secretary of State of the United States, respectively, have sent an aircraft carrier battle group toward the Gulf in the vicinity of Iran, …

bubmagMay 6, 2019

Trade War

Market Snapshot: U.S. stock futures sink as threat of full-blown trade war re-emerges

Stock futures tumbled sharply on Monday, as global markets sold off amid fears that trade talks between the U.S. and China were on the verge of collapse, after President Donald Trump threatened to raise tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods. How are benc…

bubmagMay 6, 2019

Big Data

ISC High Performance conference is back: Catch up with the latest developments in super-high-end computing

Promo The ISC High Performance conference is back, taking place this year in Frankfurt, Germany, from 16 to 20 June, and bringing together thousands of users and exhibitors with a shared interest in the latest high performance computing (HPC), big data, and c…

bubmagMay 6, 2019

AR-15

All of the Reasons Why the AR-500 Is One Monster of a Rifle

Used by SWAT and other tactical teams to stop vehicles, the AR-500 would likely only fire a handful of shots for a narrow purpose. Given that the rifle already weighs ten pounds and five rounds of .500 S&W can weigh up to half a pound, ammunition weight b…

bubmagMay 6, 2019

Yellow Vests

French President Emmanuel Macron’s party falls behind far right in EU election poll

The party of far-right leader Marine Le Pen will top the upcoming European Parliament elections with 22 percent of the vote, just ahead of President Emmanuel Macron's REM party, an Ipsos poll released on Sunday. It was the first time Le Pen's Rassemblement N…

bubmagMay 6, 2019

France is banning electric scooters from sidewalks

France is banning electric scooters from sidewalks

Online Service Allows You to Hire Someone to Attend a Protest in Your Place

U.S. Deploys Aircraft Carrier, Bombers To Send ‘Unmistakable Message’ To Iran

Germany’s refugee intake begins to boost economy as settlers soothe country’s worker shortage

Warmongers Bolton & Pompeo send Aircraft Carrier to Menace Iran, still Hoping for Confrontation

Market Snapshot: U.S. stock futures sink as threat of full-blown trade war re-emerges

ISC High Performance conference is back: Catch up with the latest developments in super-high-end computing

All of the Reasons Why the AR-500 Is One Monster of a Rifle

French President Emmanuel Macron’s party falls behind far right in EU election poll

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