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8. 2. 2019 No Responses

More than half of US coal mines have closed since 2008

Declining coal demand in the US and rising demand for fracked natural gas and renewables have hit coal production and the number of active coal mines in the United States has dropped by more than half since peak coal production...

5. 2. 2019 No Responses

Flotilla of tankers with Venezuelan oil stranded in Gulf of Mexico

The Suezmax sized oil tanker Karvounis lies at anchor stranded off the coast of Louisiana for lack of a bank letter of credit to discharge its cargo of Venezuelan heavy crude, south of Port Fourchon. A flotilla loaded with about...

2. 2. 2019 No Responses

EU Parliament lectures world on rule of law, then destroys legality in Venezuela

It’s a some degree of moral disgrace when the EU Parliament, which lectures the world on the need to respect the rule of law, uses legal language to tell lies about the legality of the situation in Venezuela, and to...

24. 1. 2019 No Responses

Salesforce CEO calls artificial intelligence a ‘new human right’

Artificial intelligence is a “new human right” that everyone should have access to, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday. Otherwise, “those with access to A.I. will be smarter, healthier, and rich...

23. 1. 2019 No Responses

South Korea retained the global crown in the 2019 Bloomberg Innovation Index

South Korea retained the global crown in the 2019 Bloomberg Innovation Index, though improvements by Germany in research and education brought Europe’s largest economy to near-parity in the annual ranking. The U.S. moved up to eighth place, a year after...

14. 1. 2019 No Responses

PG&E Sparked at Least 1,500 California Fires – Now the Utility Faces Collapse

PG&E Corp. equipment started more than one fire a day in California on average in recent years as a historic drought turned the region into a tinderbox. The utility’s unsuccessful efforts to prevent such blazes have put it in a...

13. 1. 2019 No Responses

Tulsi Gabbard, the intrepid congresswoman who has over the years given the Neocons and war machine heart attacks, is running for president in 2020

“I have decided to run and will be making a formal announcement within the next week,” she told CNN. Gabbard (D-Hawaii) tells us exactly: “There are a lot of reasons for me to make this decision. There are a lot...

2. 1. 2019 No Responses

Google wins lawsuit, can continue to use facial recognition tech on users without consent

A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit that alleged Google’s nonconsensual use of facial recognition technology violated users’ privacy rights, allowing the tech giant to continue to scan and store their biometric data. The lawsuit, filed in 2016, alleg...

31. 12. 2018 No Responses

Skepticism & Pocahontas jokes: Twitter reacts to news Elizabeth Warren running for president in 2020

With a mere 673 days until the 2020 US presidential election, Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren has announced the formation of an “exploratory committee” to consider a run for the highest office in the land. In American politics jargon, this means...

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