#Warner Bros. Discovery Acquires Turkish Streamer BluTV

#Warner Bros. Discovery Acquires Turkish Streamer BluTV

Warner Bros. Discovery has acquired BluTV, a subscription video-on-demand service in Turkey, the company said on Friday. Financial terms weren’t disclosed. “The announcement follows three years of extensive partnership, which started in 2021 with the launch of Discovery+ on BluTV and an investment by Discovery Inc. that made the company a 35 percent shareholder of BluTV,”…

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#At the heart of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, anthropology matters as much as history

#At the heart of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, anthropology matters as much as history

Who is indigenous to Israel and Palestine: Jews or Arabs? The answer depends on how we interpret history. Radically diverse starting points invoked by both parties have led to the terrible conflict we are witnessing. Starting with the past century, we can count backwards to see what history tells us. As both the Christian-European and Muslim-Ottoman colonial empires…

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#Big Labor systematically lies to forced dues-paying workers 

#Big Labor systematically lies to forced dues-paying workers 

Throughout last month’s first-ever U.S. House hearing on national right-to-work legislation in the Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions (HELP), the dividing line between the panel’s Republican majority and its Democratic minority was very clear. Every single one of the Republican HELP panel members who spoke during the 130-minute-long hearing expressed support for…

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#Beijing sees coldest December on record in more than 70 years

#Beijing sees coldest December on record in more than 70 years

Beijing recorded more than 300 hours of sub-freezing temperatures in the last two weeks, setting a record for the coldest two-week period in China’s capital city since officials began tracking. The official newspaper, the Beijing Daily, said the two-week period starting on Dec. 11 had the most hours of sub-freezing temperatures since 1951, The Associated…

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