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Jerusalem Controversy

Sajid Javid visits Kotel, Yad Vashem and meets Netanyahu on Israel trip

Home Secretary Sajid Javid placed a note between the stones of Jerusalem’s Western Wall today during a two-day visit to Israel. Before meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and after a deeply moving and emotional visit to the national Holocaust m…

bubmagJuly 2, 2019

Silk Road

A Himalayan tale

Once upon a time, North of the Annapurna and Dhaulagiri ranges of the upper Himalayas in Nepal, abutting the Tibetan plateau, lay a kingdom. So remote was its location requiring an arduous trek over some of the highest mountain passes in the world and so fear…

bubmagJuly 2, 2019

New York City

Why 2,000 Speed Cameras Are Coming to N.Y.C. Streets

Critics say the cameras dont prevent crashes and primarily generate money for the city. More than 5.2 million violations have been issued totaling more than $228 million in fines through last year. Traffic fatalities dropped after cameras were installed, but…

bubmagJuly 2, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

How to Properly Criticize RussiaGate

Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Reflecting on actor John Lithgow and Hollywood director Rob Reiners laughable efforts to popularize the Mueller Report on stage and video, a West Coast comrade wrote las week to ask me, Is anyone still taking this WMD Mueller c…

bubmagJuly 2, 2019

NASDAQ

At midday: Tech, financial stocks lead TSX higher – The Globe and Mail

Canadas main stock index rose in early trading on Tuesday, as the heavy-weight financial sector gained, but shrinking factory activity data in June kept investors from making bigger bets. At 11:42 a.m. ET, the Toronto Stock Exchanges S&P/TSX Composite in…

bubmagJuly 2, 2019

Super Komachi

Weather agency issues torrential rain warning, urging early evacuations in western Japan

The Meteorological Agency on Tuesday warned of torrential rain in western Japan in the coming days and urged people to evacuate early to protect themselves against life-threatening disasters. It said parts of Kyushu could receive 80 millimeters or more of ra…

bubmagJuly 2, 2019

Nukes

Your Digital Self: HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ is a scary reminder that there are constant nuclear-safety violations

If you havent seen HBOs Chernobyl mini-series yet, you absolutely should. While the TV show has its fair share of inaccuracies, it still superbly retells a tragic tale of what happens when political and ideological interests overshadow public safety. As s…

bubmagJuly 2, 2019

Geely

China needs to invest in hydrogen infrastructure, policy advisor says

BEIJING China needs to strengthen its infrastructure for the distribution of hydrogen as a fuel to accelerate development of its fuel-cell vehicle industry, a high-ranking government industrial policy advisor told a conference on Tuesday. "Experience tells u…

bubmagJuly 2, 2019

Cold War

Xi urged Trump to ease North Korea sanctions in ‘timely’ fashion

Chinese President Xi Jinping urged US President Donald Trump to "show flexibility" towards North Korea, including the "timely" easing of sanctions, at the G20 summit last week, China's foreign minister said Tuesday. Xi visited North Korea prior to meeting Tr…

bubmagJuly 2, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

Delingpole: What I Learned on My Undercover Mission Among the Greenies at Glastonbury.

pic.twitter.com/a3AjmiqRgc — James Delingpole (@JamesDelingpole) July 1, 2019 No, not really. Look closely and you’ll see that it’s just a painted hardboard cut-out. But it does give you an idea of what we’re up against. Hanging on the wall nearby was a pai…

bubmagJuly 2, 2019

Sajid Javid visits Kotel, Yad Vashem and meets Netanyahu on Israel trip

A Himalayan tale

Why 2,000 Speed Cameras Are Coming to N.Y.C. Streets

How to Properly Criticize RussiaGate

At midday: Tech, financial stocks lead TSX higher – The Globe and Mail

Weather agency issues torrential rain warning, urging early evacuations in western Japan

Your Digital Self: HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ is a scary reminder that there are constant nuclear-safety violations

China needs to invest in hydrogen infrastructure, policy advisor says

Xi urged Trump to ease North Korea sanctions in ‘timely’ fashion

Delingpole: What I Learned on My Undercover Mission Among the Greenies at Glastonbury.

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