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Super Komachi

French air traffic-control strike to ground hundreds of flights

Hundreds of flights are set to be cancelled, and many more delayed, due to the first French air-traffic control strike of the summer. Controllers and engineers working for DSNA, the national air-navigation provider, will stop work from 7pm local time on Wed…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

Astroturfing

The Post-Attribution Era

Cesare Maccari In this 2007 book, Halting State, Charles Stross describes a near future in which the internet makes it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for ordinary people to properly attribute communications and events. Warning: this…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

Super Heroes

5 Marvel Multiverse Worlds We Want To See In The MCU

With the trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home, we have no been introduced to the cinematic equivalent of the Marvel Multiverse. Mysterio supposedly hails from an alternate Earth and crossed over to ours due to Thanos’ snap. Whether he’s truthful remains a qu…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

Gundam

Gundam Creator Reveals Beef With Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki

When it comes to anime, there are some brands which stand above others. Franchises like Pokemon are top-tier hitters, and the same can be said for all things Gundam. Still, that doesnt mean the man responsible for the mecha franchise is satisfied. No, not at…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

New York City

Asteroid simulation sparks scary outcome for New York City

bubmagMay 7, 2019

Belt and Road

US: Leading global efforts to warn nations over China’s ‘predatory’ BRI

bubmagMay 7, 2019

Protectionism

EU cuts eurozone growth forecast as Italy debt soars

Brussels (AFP) - The European Commission cut its eurozone growth forecast for 2019 on Tuesday, with overspending by populist-run Italy again a concern. In its quarterly forecast, the EU executive blamed the downward trend on the slowdown in China and US prot…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

Gundam

The ‘Gundam’ Gunpla Model Kit Phenomenon Has Now Reached 500 Million Lifetime Sales

As of this year, the total lifetime sales of Gunpla, or Gundam plastic model kits, has reached the monumental figure of 500 million units.To give some context to that figure, if you were to line up all the packaging together, it would circle the world four ti…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

NASDAQ

Wall St. opens lower as trade worries keep investors on sidelines – Investing.com

By Amy Caren Daniel (Reuters) - U.S. stocks posted broad-based declines on Tuesday, led by tariff-sensitive industrial companies, as renewed worries over trade negotiations with China stoked global growth worries and kept investors away from risky assets. …

bubmagMay 7, 2019

AR-15

Watch Lil Nas X Play “Country Or Nah” With Desus & Mero

Before he made the unstoppable monster single “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X was a visible Twitter guy, a vocal and engaging member of Nicki Minaj’s Barbz stan army. And back before they launched their own Showtime talk show — and before the Vice show and podcast…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

French air traffic-control strike to ground hundreds of flights

The Post-Attribution Era

5 Marvel Multiverse Worlds We Want To See In The MCU

Gundam Creator Reveals Beef With Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki

Asteroid simulation sparks scary outcome for New York City

US: Leading global efforts to warn nations over China’s ‘predatory’ BRI

EU cuts eurozone growth forecast as Italy debt soars

The ‘Gundam’ Gunpla Model Kit Phenomenon Has Now Reached 500 Million Lifetime Sales

Wall St. opens lower as trade worries keep investors on sidelines – Investing.com

Watch Lil Nas X Play “Country Or Nah” With Desus & Mero

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