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Greta Thunberg Triggers Climate Deniers

( Greta is fine. They tended to trigger me, however )

Supreme Court Sinks Bozo - TIME TO GO

Thomas Cook - Allison Pearson EU Idiocy

Politics : NPR

• House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries On An Official Impeachment

  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced an official impeachment inquiry this evening. NPR's Ari Shapiro

• House Speaker Pelosi Announces Formal Impeachment Inquiry Into President

  When did President Trump order a suspension of aid to Ukraine and did he attach conditions for its

• Trump Again Emphasizes 'America First' Agenda At U.N. General

  One year after world leaders laughed at President Trump, he returned to the U.N. General Assembly to

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Discover: BreakingNews.ie

• Greta Thunberg hits back after Trump brands her ‘happy young girl’

  Hours after giving an emotional speech to the United Nations, the US president seemed to troll the 16-year-

• Winner of €5.3m jackpot makes contact with Lotto HQ

  The jackpot was won last Saturday with a ticket sold in Innishannon, Co Cork.

• BA funds seven-year-old cancer survivor’s Disney trip after Thomas Cook

  Connor Kitching, aged seven, will be going to Disney World in Florida after British Airways offered to fund

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Ireland: BreakingNews.ie

• Government accused of climate change tokenism over carbon tax plan

  The Government has been accused of climate change “tokenism” over its planned carbon tax

• Higgins defends travel arrangements at climate summit

  President Michael D Higgins has defended his use of the government jet, claiming he would travel by

• ‘Wide gap’ between EU, UK on Brexit

  The Taoiseach has said there is still a “very wide gap” on Brexit following his meeting with UK

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memeorandum

• Michigan City Clerk Charged with Altering Ballots in 2018 Midterms (Jack

  Jack Crowe / National Review : Michigan City Clerk Charged with Altering Ballots in 2018 Midterms  

• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expected to announce impeachment inquiry (CNBC)

  CNBC : House Speaker Nancy Pelosi expected to announce impeachment inquiry   — House Speaker

• 'A shift to Schiff': With growing calls for Trump impeachment

  Yahoo News : ‘A shift to Schiff’: With growing calls for Trump impeachment, Democratic

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The Hayride

• BOYD: Climate Change Cultists Want To Make Your Life More Miserable

  This week is climate action week where climate change cultists will be holding all sorts of marches and

• Hooray! Louisiana Personal Income Is Up 4.9 Percent!

  Oh, but wait – nationally, personal income is up 5.4 percent. Louisiana’s quarterly personal income

• Public comments close for new SNAP benefits rule closing eligibility

  The public comment period closed Monday on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) proposed rule to

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - research • analysis • solutions

• Unpacking the details of Manitoba Hydro

  What would a long view of Manitoba Hydro all entail.  Read report here.

• CCPA submission to Treasury Board consultation on regulatory modernization

  On June 29, 2019, the federal government launched a public consultation on initiatives intended to "

• Join us in November for the 2019 CCPA-BC Gala, featuring Nancy MacLean

  Tickets are available for our 2019 Annual Gala Fundraiser, which will take place in Vancouver on November

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Times of India

• 'Howdy, Modi': How PM Modi fired on Pakistan from Trump’s shoulders

• In Trump’s presence, Modi attacks Pak for terror export

• Experts find Sivan’s ‘98% success’ remark laughable

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

• Punjab CM sends Amit Shah SOS as Pak drones drop weapons

  After a Punjab Police probe revealed that Pakistani-origin drones had been used to deliver automatic

• PM Modi meets with leaders of Pacific Island countries in New York

  The leaders deliberated on a wide range of issues, including sharing of development experiences for

• Rs 12,000cr, 33 lakh people: What it will take to count every Indian

  For the first time, India’s population census will be a paperless affair, with the Census 2021 being

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News24 Top Stories

• News24.com | IPID head of investigation to testify at state capture inquiry

  National head of investigation in the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) Matthews Sesoko

• News24.com | Critical step to promoting African languages is ensuring it’s

  Ensuring that African languages are offered in all schools is a critical step toward actively promoting it,

• News24.com | Douglas Gibson: Lesufi should read the Constitution of South

  We cannot leave it to Afrikaans-speakers to fight alone. All those who value what the new South Africa

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News24 Voices

• News24.com | Douglas Gibson: Lesufi should read the Constitution of South

  We cannot leave it to Afrikaans-speakers to fight alone. All those who value what the new South Africa

• News24.com | Ralph Mathekga: VBS destroying Parliament's ability to do

  We should ask ourselves what the main preoccupation of an average member of Parliament in South Africa is.

• News24.com | Mamphela Ramphele: We need civic education programmes to end

  The debates our society is now engaged in are reactive rather than informed by a shared value system

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News24 Africa

• News24.com | Zimbabwean capital grapples with water shortage

  After food, fuel, medicine and electricity, the Zimbabwean capital Harare is adding running water to its

• Fin24.com | Zambia to import electricity from Eskom to plug severe deficit

  The country needs to help plug a severe deficit that’s causing daily power cuts lasting about eight hours.

• News24.com | 8 babies in maternity unit killed in Algeria hospital fire

  Eight babies have been killed after a fire ripped through the maternity unit at a hospital in eastern

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World: BreakingNews.ie

• New urine test could increase longer-term pancreatic cancer survival rates

  The test will be analysed in a clinical study and then rolled out to patients if successful.

• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces official impeachment inquiry of Trump

  Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced the House is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry of

• Boris Johnson vows to press on with Brexit after Supreme Court bombshell

  The British Prime Minister said he would abide by the finding of the Supreme Court that the five-week

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TASS

• Building up US military power will not help resolve situation in Persian

  Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin said that the situation in the Persian Gulf cannot be

• Several Russian delegates to CTBT conference were not granted US visas

  Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya said that more than 10 Russian

• Zelensky and Lavrov held brief talks in New York — source

  Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held brief talks on the

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WebMD Health

• It Takes Less Weight to Trigger Diabetes in Minorities Than Whites

  Minorities should probably be screened even if they have a normal body mass index, particularly as they get

• 'Self-Silencing' Potentially Deadly for Women

  In a study of women aged 40 to 60, those who suffered from "self-silencing" had an increased risk

• Common Antidepressants May Work in Unexpected Way: Study

  Zoloft (sertraline) -- and the family of similar drugs it belongs to -- may actually take months to ease

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WhoWhatWhy

• Liar, Liar, British Politics on Fire

  Reading Time: 3 minutes Prime Minister Boris Johnson has contempt for the truth and he just got royally

• Gun Buyback Talk: How Do You Round Up So Many Weapons?

  Reading Time: 2 minutes Climate Exodus Is Starting in the Florida Keys ; 'I Love America' Facebook

• Voter Registration Could Tip the Scales in 2020

  Reading Time: 4 minutes Once-discounted voters could sway the 2020 election, as voting-rights groups

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Science Blog

• ‘I would like people to panic’ – Top scientist unveils equation showing

  A new equation showing that the world is ‘deep in a climate emergency’ was unveiled on 24

• Shoe-mounted laser to ‘unfreeze’ people with Parkinson’s scoops €1 million

  A shoe-mounted laser beam that helps people with Parkinson’s disease ‘unfreeze’ by

• Better samples, better science: New study explores integrity of research

  Effective diagnosis and treatment of disease draws on painstaking research, which often relies on

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Raw Story

• ‘Do you think I’m stupid?’: Rudy Giuliani says Democrats ‘walked into a

  President Donald Trump’s personal defense attorney on Tuesday took a bizarre victory lap on Fox News

• White House only wants to send Congress a ‘redacted version’ of

  The Republican-controlled United States Senate on Tuesday voted unanimously for a resolution demanding the

• Trump official breaks with the president and defends the whistleblower

  As President Donald Trump fights back the groundswell of opposition triggered by the revelation that he has

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Scoop NZ - Sci-tech

• Smart Sheep Set for School Trial

  A smart sheep, whose horns unfurl and nose turns blue when a room is cold and damp, is helping students at

• AI Forum research provides a policy framework for NZ

  The AI Forum’s latest research “Towards our Intelligent Future” provides a policy framework for artificial

• High-powered computer sees red

  In almost all human cultures, colours are associated with different emotions such as hate, love, anger and

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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.

• On the Other Hand

  HOLY GRAIL MIRACLE FINDS UNEARTHED AT PROGRESSIVE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIG From our rambling Labour Conference

• CRASH2: spooked financial markets,over-borrowed banks, and IPO bubbles at

   When an econo-financial world based on never-ending credit meets the reality of suspicion about inability

• Killing ideological Establishments with Ground-Up reform, Part 2

    Having yesterday suggested the general necessity to move far beyond the political and bureaucratic

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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

• Imagine Jair Bolsonaro Standing Trial for Ecocide at The Hague – The New

  Since August, as vast stretches of the Amazon rainforest were being reduced to ashes and outrage and calls

• Artificial Unintelligence | The MIT Press

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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

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Top Documentary Films

• Cracking Up

  Australia is undergoing an apartment

• Running on Empty

  The writing is on the wall, and on

• Shipbreakers

  In Alang, India, just under 200 miles

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Universe Today

• Lockheed Wins the Contract to Build Six More Orion Capsules

  NASA and Lockheed Martin have finalized their contract for the delivery of the 6 to 12 Orion capsules that

• Just How Feasible is a Warp Drive?

  At a presentation at this year's AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum, engineer Joseph Agnew spoke of the

• SpaceX Starship Gets Some Fins

  Elon Musk has provided another update on the construction of the Starship prototype, which now includes

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Washington's Blog

• Financial Storm Clouds Gather

  The financial storm clouds are gathering, and no, I’m not talking about impeachment or the Fed and

• The Sickness of American Foreign Policy

  Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org The Military-Industrial Complex runs U.S. foreign

• American Voters Apparently Fear Sanders’s ‘Socialism’

  Eric Zuesse A Hart/McInturf (NBC/WSJ) poll of 900 registered American voters, issued on September 22nd

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Whistleblower Protection Blog

• Lawmakers take up bills to protect whistleblowers who expose financial and

  Not all the recent whistleblower news from Capitol Hill involves the president and the Ukraine.  The House

• Will whistleblower battle lead to a crisis of confidence in the

  9/24 update: David Colapinto, general counsel of  the National Whistleblower Center, spoke about the

• From wildlife to the White House, whistleblowing in the week’s news

  A news round-up. Looking at the efficacy of wildlife whistleblower programs A recent review of wildlife

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Andy Worthington

• 14 Million Dollars Per Prisoner Per Year: The Absurd Cost of Guantánamo

  Following up on a report about the outrageous cost of running the prison at Guantánamo Bay by Carol

• The Green Generation: The Furious Energy of Young People and the Global

  My report about the Global Climate Strike on September 20, 2019, and, particularly, the protest in London,

• Beyond Irony: Peabody Launches ‘The Muse’ at Amersham Vale in New Cross

  I look at how Peabody Sales, the private sales arm of the giant housing association Peabody, has just

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