News Burst 8 November 2019

• Italy: Next January the reform that reduces the Members of Parliament from 915 to 600 would be enforced therefore the Senators are collecting signatures to hold a referendum that would block the new law.
• Over a dozen Iraq protesters shot dead in last 48 hours; Days into a government ordered internet blackout across much of the country, Iraqi security forces are in the midst of a new major crackdown on massive protests which have gripped the nation for over a month.
• During the Second World War, Moscow was bombed 141 times. The main objective of Hitler’s airstrikes was the Kremlin, but it suffered only eight attacks. The bombings caused much less destruction than expected. “In the first place, the masking of the Kremlin provided for camouflaging the fortress’ bright elements, such as the ruby ​​stars, which were extinguished and covered with pieces of canvas; the golden domes of Ivan the Great Bell Tower and the cathedrals were also covered. In addition, both the Ivan the Great bell tower, the cathedrals and the buildings were painted in such a way that it seemed that it was not a single building. Streets and avenues were painted on those buildings”. The Kremlin’s walls and towers were also camouflaged.
• Anti-Russian sentiment, which turns out to be a face-saving idea for the North Atlantic Alliance, is a specific sign of what French President Emmanuel Macron has described as NATO’s “brain death,” Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
• Beijing has announced plans to develop 6G technology in the hope of cementing its supremacy in wireless connection amid a US-led crusade against Chinese companies over 5G networks.

• The October climate protest cost the British Met Police £24m, but the High Court now says the ban that ended the 10-day action was unlawful, opening the way for up to £1m in compensation – cash that could be spent on future protests and legal cases.
• Russia allocates 33 times less money to science from the federal budget than the US now, Chairman of the State Duma’s Committee for Education and Science said.
• Planet-hunter spacecraft captures Milky Way’s southern sky in stunning panorama. The NASA spaceship that’s dedicated to scanning the galaxy for undiscovered worlds has captured our galaxy in stunning detail with a spectacular panoramic view of the southern sky. Video

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News Burst 6 November 2019

• Almost 90 people killed during anti-government protests in Ethiopia.
• Chinese Pilot been grounded for life after a photo of a woman wearing civilian clothes sitting in the airplane’s cockpit while it was airborne went viral on social media.
• The last surviving McDonald’s burger in Iceland had just turned 10 years old when its record age was surpassed by another, older burger, this time in Australia, a Quarter Pounder with Cheese bought almost 25 years ago.
• ABC News knew the full extent of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes three years ago, but a combination of orders from above and threats from those implicated killed the story before it ever got to air, leaked footage shows.
• China sent a new satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space, it is the 49th satellite of the BDS satellite family and the 24th satellite of the BDS-3 system. China will launch another six BDS-3 satellites to complete the BDS global network.

• Russia’s antitrust watchdog fears bankruptcy of sugar factories due to decline in prices.
• Violent winds forced specialists to suspend the loading of the beluga whales remaining in Srednyaya Bay, Russia, onto vessels in order to transport them to their points of release.
• Schools are using apps to track students’ restroom time. Student submits a request to leave the classroom through the app. The system notes any “red flags,” such as frequent requests by the same student. The teacher approve the request. The student leave and the teacher logs in the app when return. If the student takes too long, the app automatically pings an administrator to check on them.
• Women killed in Mexican cartel murders had alleged ties to sex cult Nxivm.

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News Burst 4 November 2019

• France is about to introduce an educational module to its high school curriculum that covers Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies.
• Democrat Beto O’Rourke dropped out of the crowded 2020 U.S. presidential race on Friday, saying it had become clear his campaign did not have the resources to continue to seek his party’s nomination.
• Hong Kong anti-government protesters crowded a shopping mall in running clashes with police on Sunday during which a man with a knife slashed several people and apparently bit off part of a local politician’s ear.
• British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Sunday he would rule out a new referendum on Scottish independence, saying he would not give the go-ahead for another legally-binding vote while he is at 10 Downing Street.
• The national capital of India, Delhi, was on Sunday engulfed by a dense, noxious smog that reduced visibility, brought air quality to its worst level since 2016, 16 times safe limit.

Daylight Saving Time

• Benjamin Franklin is often credited with the idea of Daylight Saving Time because, in a satirical letter to the authors of The Journal of Paris, he suggested the French wake earlier to take advantage of “using sunshine instead of candles.”
• DST as we know it was proposed by a New Zealand entomologist, George Vernon Hudson, who wanted longer hours for insect study.
• The first locality to enact DST was Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay, Ontario), Canada, in 1908. The first country to enact DST was Germany on Apr. 30, 1916, although the Germans dropped the time change at war’s end.
• American farmers were opposed to DST because, regardless of what the clock said, their cows weren’t ready to be milked until later in the day during DST.
• A resort in Madagascar created its own DST, which runs an hour ahead of the rest of the country, so the lemurs would “naturally join us in the Oasis garden… for the ‘5 O’clock tea.’”
• Some ancient civilizations are known to have used practices similar to DST. Roman water clocks, for example, used different scales for different times of the year.

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