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Tayyip Erdogan

How a few missing words hurt Turkey’s turnaround

ACENTRAL BANKS words have power. Three of them (whatever it takes) calmed the euro areas debt panic in 2012. Another few (the Federal Reserve mulling a step down in our pace of purchases) started the taper tantrum that upset emerging markets in 2013. What is…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Climate Change

How supercharged plants could slow climate change | Joanne Chory

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Greta Thunberg

america’s renewable energy usage surpasses coal for the first time ever

it looks as though the future of electricity in the US favours renewable energy as it surpasses the production of coal for the first time ever. according to reports, renewables including hydro, solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal generated more electricity t…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Obamacare

Trump changes legal strategy, argues entire Obamacare law is unconstitutional

President Donald Trump is once again trying to destroy the Affordable Care Act. In an argument to a federal appeals court on Wednesday, the Trump administration claimed that the signature health care law passed by President Barack Obama is unconstitutional a…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Bees

More Than Half a Million Bees Killed in Texas After Arsonist Burns Beehives

Authorities in Brazoria County, Texas, are seeking information about the burning of several beehives last weekend in which more than 500,000 bees were killed. Early Saturday morning, just before 2 a.m., a deputy with the Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office came…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Feudalism

Yes, We Can Do Better Than Capitalism

As capitalism drives itself into ever-greater inequality, instability and injustice, its critics multiply. Worried defenders react in two ways. Many dismiss the criticisms. After all, capitalism has been around a long time and weathered ups and downs before. …

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Yellow Vests

The First May Day Protest for France’s “Yellow Vests” Turned Remarkably Violent

PARIS, France During Paris' annual May Day protests this year, protestors broke pavement and threw chunks at the police, who responded with batons and fired tear gas at multiple crowds in attempts to control factions bent on rioting, like Black Bloc. By the…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Bubble

A woman gave her family a hilarious brochure about going on a date while they were on vacation, and recommends the tactic for anyone dealing with prying personal questions

From Thanksgiving dinners to family weddings, there's no place a relative won't ask about our love lives. But comedian Mary Beth Barone wanted to make sure an upcoming family vacation wouldn't be ruined by prying questions, so she made a brochure for relat…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

Washington State Did A Socialism For Old People!

The state of Washington has passed the Long-Term Health Care Act, a first-in-the-nation law that will establish funds that workers can access when they need long-term care. It's a start toward dealing with the problems faced by families of the elderly, and es…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Water Scarcity

South Africa: In Parched South Africa, Water-Storing Football Fields Give Drought the Boot

By Kim HarrisbergJohannesburg — When a football field that stores and filters rainwater was installed at a school in South Africa, teachers noticed that the health and class attendance of pupils improved Sibusiso Mohlapi, a math and science teacher at Boshoe…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

How a few missing words hurt Turkey’s turnaround

How supercharged plants could slow climate change | Joanne Chory

america’s renewable energy usage surpasses coal for the first time ever

Trump changes legal strategy, argues entire Obamacare law is unconstitutional

More Than Half a Million Bees Killed in Texas After Arsonist Burns Beehives

Yes, We Can Do Better Than Capitalism

The First May Day Protest for France’s “Yellow Vests” Turned Remarkably Violent

A woman gave her family a hilarious brochure about going on a date while they were on vacation, and recommends the tactic for anyone dealing with prying personal questions

Washington State Did A Socialism For Old People!

South Africa: In Parched South Africa, Water-Storing Football Fields Give Drought the Boot

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