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Politics : NPR

• A Look At President Trump's History Of Profiting Off His Presidency

  NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with David Fahrenthold of The Washington Post about President Trump'

• Many Democratic Candidates Are Embracing Grassroots Fundraisers

  Campaigns typically hold fundraisers to pull in big checks from wealthy supporters. But now, several

• French President Macron Says He's Trying To Get U.S. And Iran To

  At the close of the G7 summit, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that he is trying to broker a

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Discover: BreakingNews.ie

• Woman finds diamond while watching YouTube video on how to find diamonds

  Miranda Hollingshead was on a day out with her family at Crater Of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas.

• Contestant gets inked backstage during Rose of Tralee

  Arizona Rose Kayla Gray has become the first Rose of Tralee contestant to get a tattoo backstage during the

• Banksy Brexit-themed mural hidden by paint and scaffolding

  It is not yet clear why the artwork in Dover has disappeared.

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Ireland: BreakingNews.ie

• Roses tackle weighty subjects of politics and tattoos

  There’s always a Twitter wag who can cut to the quick of what a lot of us are thinking: Imagine a

• Claims agency payouts treble to €350m

  A surge in injury claims paid by taxpayers is being blamed on State agencies failing to learn from mistakes

• Man, 34, dies following assault in Tallaght

  A man seriously assaulted in Dublin on Saturday night has died in hospital.

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memeorandum

• The Amazon rainforest is on fire. Climate scientists fear a tipping point

  Julia Rosen / Los Angeles Times : The Amazon rainforest is on fire.  Climate scientists fear a
• ( Would it not be news if 'climate scientists' did NOT fear a 'tipping point' ? I can recall nothing but - argued from the strangest premises. - which this is not.)

• Trump Went to the Mat for Putin at the G-7 Summit (Jonathan Chait/New York

  Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine : Trump Went to the Mat for Putin at the G-7 Summit   &mdash

• Devin Nunes' attorney argues @DevinNunesMom, @DevinCow parody accounts

  Matt Keeley / Newsweek : Devin Nunes' attorney argues @DevinNunesMom, @DevinCow parody accounts as

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The Hayride

• The State GOP Just Lit Up John Bel Edwards For His Crooked Administration,

  This doesn’t need much of an introduction, other than to say it did feel a little like the dam broke

• Sutherland Springs Pastor To Bring ‘Civility And Godliness’ To Texas Senate

  The Sunday after one of the heroes of the Sutherland Springs shooting appeared at the Capitol to defend gun

• Report: Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $116 billion annually

  A comprehensive report by the Federation for Immigration Reform (FAIR) breaks down the cost of illegal

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - research • analysis • solutions

• Report looks at captured nature of BC’s Oil and Gas Commission

  From an early stage, BC’s Oil and Gas Commission bore the hallmarks of a captured regulator. The very

• Correcting the Record

  Earlier this week Kris Sims and Franco Terrazzano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation wrote an opinion

• Rental Wage in Canada

  Our new report maps rental affordability in neighbourhoods across Canada by calculating the “rental wage,”

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Times of India

• Nothing more 'political, 'anti-national' than shutting down of

• PV Sindhu’s victory puts India on top of the world

• Oppn, press got taste of 'draconian administration', 'brute

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India News | Latest News Headlines & Live Updates from India - Times of India

• Chenani-Nashri tunnel in J&K may be named after BJP ideologue

  Union minister Jitendra Singh has made this suggestion to highways minister Nitin Gadkari. Sources said

• Chidambaram, other accused have assets across continents, ED tells SC

  In an affidavit, ED told SC that P Chidambaram and other accused have bank accounts and properties in

• A warming Arabian sea is burning the colour of corals

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News24 Top Stories

• News24.com | Western Cape dams: Careful water use urged as levels remain &#

  Dam levels are stable in the Western Cape, so continued careful use of water is called for, the province

• News24.com | Still no police station five years after Khayelitsha

  Five years after the Khayelitsha commission of inquiry into policing released its findings and

• News24.com | Mamphela Ramphele: Africa's opportunity to turn climate

  No job is too important to be created or sustained at the expense of the well being of our children and

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News24 Voices

• News24.com | Mandy Wiener: Gavin Watson's death – Brett Kebble 2.0?

  There are obvious similarities between the deaths of Gavin Watson and Brett Kebble. But there is no hard

• News24.com | Mamphela Ramphele: Africa's opportunity to turn climate

  No job is too important to be created or sustained at the expense of the well being of our children and

• News24.com | OPINION | National Development Plan: 7 years on and no

  There must be consequences for underperformance. Without it, in a decade's time, we will be speaking of

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News24 Africa

• News24.com | PM Hamdok seeks to remove Sudan from US terror list

  Hamdok says getting off US terror list and cutting military budget will revive country's faltering

• News24.com | DR Congo unveils new government after months-long delay

  Nearly eight months after former opposition chief Felix Tshisekedi was elected president, the Democratic

• News24.com | Amnesty slams Zimbabwe's Mnangagwa over 'ruthless'

  Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has led a "ruthless" and systematic crackdown on

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Jon Rappoport's Blog

• Exit From The Matrix: unlimited power of imagination

  by Jon Rappoport May 11, 2019 One way or another, 99.99999999% of the world’s “spiritual systems” get

• The lure of a stimulus-response world

  Shrinking-freedom is a Spiritual covert op by Jon Rappoport May 10, 2019 (To join our email list, click

• The stone cold conservative socialist

  by Jon Rappoport May 9, 2019 (To join our email list, click here.) “Is he a meth goony bird? He seems to be

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World: BreakingNews.ie

• Writer behind woman statue in Parliament Square push on science book

  Caroline Criado-Perez is one of six authors in the running to win ‘the Booker Prize of science

• Corbyn: Labour will ‘do everything necessary’ to halt no-deal Brexit

  The UK Labour leader is due to meet senior MPs opposed to breaking ties to Brussels without an agreement.

• Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay 572m dollars in opioid case

  The firm and its subsidiaries are expected to appeal against the ruling in Oklahoma.

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TASS

• Reinstatement of G8 format possible under certain conditions — Japanese

  US President Donald Trump said earlier that he considers it useful to invite Russia to the next summit in

• Wildfires blazing on territory of 43,300 hectares in Russia

  A total of 1,200 people and 133 units of equipment are involved in combating wildfires

• Venezuelan parliament says new military agreement with Russia "

  Earlier in August, defense ministers of Russia and Venezuela signed an agreement on bilateral military

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WebMD Health

• Judge Fines J&J $572 Billion Over Opioid Crisis

  An Oklahoma judge on Monday ruled against one of America's biggest companies, Johnson & Johnson

• Every Sudden Infant Death Deserves a Closer Look

  Whenever a healthy infant dies suddenly, that death should be investigated to determine if abuse or neglect

• Boom in Pot 'Concentrates' Could Pose Addiction Risk for Teens

  A startling number of teenagers are using marijuana concentrates.  About one in four Arizona teens have

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WhoWhatWhy

• Raging Amazon Fires Are a Potent Symbol of Our Indifference to

  Reading Time: 2 minutes How Online Hate Groups Survive ; How Journalists Covered Mussolini and Hitler

• 100 Years After Suffrage, Full Equality Eludes Women

  Reading Time: 9 minutes Women in the US won the right to vote 100 years ago today. But they still have a

• Epstein Death: Deep Digging Not Welcome in Corporate Media

  Reading Time: 4 minutes Journalists are playing an important role in tamping down rumors and

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Science Blog

• Concussions Linked to Sexual Health in Former NFL Players

  Former professional football players who have experienced concussion symptoms, including loss of

• Discovery of ‘hidden’ outbreak hints that Zika virus can spread silently

  Just when international fears of contracting Zika began to fade in 2017, an undetected outbreak was peaking

• Sea snail compound reduces cancer risk

  The remarkable ability of a small Australian sea snail to produce a colourful purple compound to protect

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Raw Story

• Maddow mocks Johnson & Johnson for being so awful their stock price went up

  MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow ridiculed Johnson & Johnson’s corporate reputation after their stock

• Lawyer for Devin Nunes argues parody cow making fun of him on Twitter is as

  On Monday, Newsweek reported that an attorney representing Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is arguing that two

• Ex-CIA chief worries what lies Trump is telling G7 allies behind-closed

  The former director of the Central Intelligence Agencia (CIA) worried on Monday about what lies President

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Scoop NZ - Sci-tech

• $1m for new Mt Erebus research

  A team from the University of Waikato and University of Canterbury, led by Professor Craig Cary, has

• UC investing $2.6m in cutting edge research equipment

  The University of Canterbury is investing $2.6 million over two years in cutting edge new research

• Students seek scientific solutions

  Everything from traffic safety to chickens and ballet shoes has had a scientific eye cast over it ahead of

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The Science of Doom

• Opinions and Perspectives – 9 – Pattern Effects

  The IPCC 5th Assessment Report (AR5) from 2013 shows the range of results that climate models produce for

• Opinions and Perspectives – 8 – Pattern Effects Primer

  For people with maths, physics and chemistry (and biology) backgrounds non-linear processes are familiar

• Opinions and Perspectives – 7 – Global Temperature Change from Doubling CO2

  How much will global temperature rise if we double CO2 from pre-industrial levels? Based on current

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Seeing the Forest

• Imagine Economic Democracy

  This post first appeared at the Imagine Democracy blog. We don’t have to “bring back jobs from

• Unfuck The World (video)

  Prophets of Rage – Unfuck The World (Official Video) – YouTube No hatred Fuck racists Blank

• Voting Systems

  How did we move from a voting system where you could be sure who won to voting systems where you have to

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The Slog.

• The SNP’s Ian Blackford: over-represented liar and globalist banker

      There’s the vast majority of UK politicians I just detest, the small minority (no more

• THE SATURDAY ESSAY: Why the Brexit Turbo would be good for Boris, but a

   A clear Team Boris synthesis for success is becoming clear. The populist thesis of Boris ‘I’m

• THE BORIS BREXIT: Quadrophonic hypocrisy and sick-making cynicism

   Having forcefully observed three years ago that Boris Johnson ran up the gangplank to board HMS Brexit

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Socio-Economics History Blog

• Gregory Mannarino: Gold & Silver Greatest Trades on Earth

  Gregory Mannarino: Gold & Silver Greatest Trades on Earth by Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Market

• MSM Networks Go Nuts Over Venezuela Without Facts

  RT America Published on Apr 30, 2019 RT America’s John Huddy joins Rick Sanchez to discuss the skewed

• Top CIA Analyst: Israel Partisans Push US to War

  If Americans Knew Published on Apr 30, 2019 Ray McGovern served as a CIA analyst for 27 years, from the

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Things I grab, motley collection

• Artificial Unintelligence | The MIT Press

  MIT Press” /> Search Menu

The Hottest Social Scene in Town Isn’t the Singles’ Bar. It’s the

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hottest-social-scene-in-town-isnt-the-singles-bar-its-the-supermarket

Why the soft machine will dominate urban transport. – ft.com

It is the technology that is changing the face of the school drop-off. At many London primary schools

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 Top Documentary Films

• The Sackler Family: A Secretive Billion Dollar Opioid Empire

  Opioid addiction is the leading

• Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest

  Hugh Wilson, the manager of the

• The New Silk Road

  China's global reach and

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The Truth is Where?

• This snooper’s charter makes George Orwell look lacking in vision.

  By Heather Brooke – Sunday 8th November 2015. Find Article Here:- When the Home Office and

• By inflating Islamic extremism, David Cameron has lost sight of what really

  By George Monbiot Tuesday 21st July 2015. Find Article Here:- The real ‘struggle of our generation’ is not

• Sunscreen contributing to decline of coral reefs, study shows.

  Posted Wednesday 21st October 2015. Find Article Here:- UV filtering chemical is killing off baby coral

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Universe Today

• There Could be Planets Out There Which are Even More Habitable than Earth

  According to a recent study presented at this year's Goldschmidt Geochemistry Congress, there may be

• Upgraded ISS Now Has a 600 Megabit per Second Internet Connection

  In the digital age, connectivity and bandwidth are important, even if you’re in Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

• Astrobotic is Going to Use a Vulcan Rocket For its Lunar Lander in 2021

  The commercial delivery company Astriobiotic will be working with the ULA to send payloads to the Moon for

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Washington's Blog

• Love It or Leave It

  Imagine a dystopian future in which every person in the United States is given free and total and

• Talk Nation Radio: Barry Sweeney on Global Anti-War Conference Planned in

  Barry Sweeney is a member of the Board of Directors of World BEYOND War. Barry is based in Ireland, but is

• China Says It’s “Now the Biggest Market” for GM Cars & Trucks.

  Eric Zuesse The Chinese Government’s Global Times newspaper headlined on August 25th, “Quitting

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Whistleblower Protection Blog

• Guest post: Whistleblowers could help expose wildlife criminals in remote

  A guest post and photos by Katarzyna Nowak. Nowak, a fellow at The Safina Center in New York, describes

• Congress wants better answers from Coast Guard Academy on racism

  NOTE: Tune into the Federal News Network for a discussion on the importance of whistleblower protection

• Whistle (blowing) while you work

  Big companies cooking the books seems to be a theme in the news this week, with the latest accusations

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Andy Worthington

• Abandoned in Guantánamo: Abdul Latif Nasser, Cleared for Release Three

  Following up on an ABC News feature about Guantánamo - a rarity for the US mainstream media, with the

• Brexit, Boris the Narcissist Clown and “Career Psychopath” Dominic Cummings

  In my first article about Boris Johnson since he became the almost unspeakably unsuitable Prime Minister of

• 17 Years Since the Notorious Yoo-Bybee “Torture Memos,” the US Still Finds

  Marking the 17th anniversary of the "torture memos," written by John Yoo and approved by Jay S

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