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Geely

Martinrea Should Outperform Other Auto Suppliers

Investment Thesis Martinrea International (OTCPK:MRETF) delivered solid Q1 2019 despite a weak auto market in the quarter. The company should continue to benefit from the trend towards lightweight vehicles as it supplies lightweight structures to a…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

Basta Bunga Bunga

In 2008, during his fourth campaign to become Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi released a video in which a beautiful blond woman, standing in a grocery store beside a pile of bananas, sings, Theres a big dream that lives in all of us. A throng of wo…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Seleção

Les Bleues and Lionesses battle through

France see off Brazil in drama-filled 2-1 win after extra timeEngland defeat Cameroon 3-0 to progress to last eightReaction and more: #ENGCMR and #FRABRA Live BlogsThe second knockout matchday at the FIFA Women's World Cup …

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Alibaba

Driverless delivery vans coming as production begins in China

ByTian Ying, Bloomberg News Forget drones. The future of deliveries may be robo-vans. A Chinese startup called Neolix kicked off mass production of its self-driving delivery vehicles in May — saying its the first company globally to do so and has lined up g…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Obamacare

Joe Biden Was Still on His Hyde Amendment Backtracking Tour at the Planned Parenthood ‘We Decide’ Forum

Nearly all the Democratic candidates in the 2020 presidential race came together to rally for abortion rights at the June 22 Planned Parenthood We Decide forum, including Joe Biden, who until recently was in favor of the Hyde Amendment, which bans the use of …

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Monsanto

Victory Gardens in the World Wars (and in the Neoliberal Era)

By Lambert Strether of Corrente Fun-loving readers, I noted Hopelb’s comment on Victory Gardens (June 9 on a Midwest flooding post), and thought I’d put together a potted history of Victory Gardens with some remarks on climate change, with one or two Worl…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Hailing prospects for Saudi arms sales, Trump won’t commit to Khashoggi inquiry

U.S. President Donald Trump isn't saying whether he'll direct the FBI to investigate the death of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and suggests that pledges by Saudi Arabia to spend billions buying U.S. military equipment are more important to him be…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Hiroshima

Dear Trump (and the US Media): Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program

Julian Borger at The Guardian reports that Trump said Saturday to reporters, Theyre not going to have a nuclear weapon. Were not going to have Iran have a nuclear weapon. When they agree to that, theyre going to have a wealthy country. Theyre going to be so h…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Gundam

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM THE ORIGIN Advent of the Red Comet – Episode 9 – Dropping the Colony

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM THE ORIGIN Advent of the Red Comet - Episode 9 - Dropping the Colony

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Air Pollution

US air quality is slipping after years of improvement

After decades of improvement, Americas air may not be getting any cleaner. Over the last two years the nation had more polluted air days than just a few years earlier, federal data shows. While it remains unclear whether this is the beginning of a trend, hea…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Martinrea Should Outperform Other Auto Suppliers

Basta Bunga Bunga

Les Bleues and Lionesses battle through

Driverless delivery vans coming as production begins in China

Joe Biden Was Still on His Hyde Amendment Backtracking Tour at the Planned Parenthood ‘We Decide’ Forum

Victory Gardens in the World Wars (and in the Neoliberal Era)

Hailing prospects for Saudi arms sales, Trump won’t commit to Khashoggi inquiry

Dear Trump (and the US Media): Iran Doesn’t Have a Nuclear Weapons Program

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM THE ORIGIN Advent of the Red Comet – Episode 9 – Dropping the Colony

US air quality is slipping after years of improvement

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