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Zelo Street

• Who Is Jonathan Stafford?

• The Legalballs Fund

• Katie Hopkins And A Vanishing Twitter Feed

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Politics : NPR

• At Trump's Impeachment Trial, Pointed Debate Over Foreign Information

  "I was flabbergasted," said Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., after an attorney for President Trump said

• Trump Administration Clears Way For Medicaid Block Grants

  States can now apply to set up their Medicaid program with capped funding from the federal government. With

• FACT CHECK: Where Trump's 2019 State Of The Union Promises Stand

  How much progress has been made on the goals that President Trump laid out in his last State of the Union

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Discover: BreakingNews.ie

• ‘Tiny’ pygmy chameleons hatch at zoo

  Chameleons the size of a pencil tip have emerged from their eggs at the facility.

• Four legs good, four wheels better for skateboarding bulldog

  Two-year-old Kiko has become a popular sight.

• Public vote sees Vicky Phelan's memoir named Irish book of the year

  Overcoming by Vicky Phelan has been named as the Irish Book of the Year.

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Ireland: BreakingNews.ie

• Teen seriously injured after reportedly being trapped under bus in Arklow

  A teenager has been seriously injured in a road traffic accident involving a bus in Arklow this afternoon.

• Currently no cases of coronavirus in Ireland - HSE

  HSE assistant national director of public health and child health Kevin Kelleher said the health services

• 'We need more': Gardaí renew appeal for information on Cork murder

  Gardaí investigating the murder of Francis 'Frankie' Dunne have spoken to a man in Romania.

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memeorandum

• Dershowitz: Anything Trump did to win re-election is in the public interest

  MSNBC : Dershowitz: Anything Trump did to win re-election is in the public interest   — 

• Rob Portman knee-deep in Ukraine incident (David Pepper/Cincinnati.com)

  David Pepper / Cincinnati.com : Rob Portman knee-deep in Ukraine incident   —  FILE- In

• Read The Question About Eric Ciaramella That Chief Justice John Roberts

  Kylee Zempel / The Federalist : Read The Question About Eric Ciaramella That Chief Justice John Roberts

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The Hayride

• Florida Legislature moving to ensure minors cannot have abortions without

  The Florida Legislature is likely to adopt a bill requiring girls under age 18 to obtain parental consent

• Study: California Migrants May Be Making Texas MORE Conservative

  Will the seemingly constant influx of residents from California flip Texas? “Don’t bet on it,&#

• BYE BYE, NICK: Why LSU’s Championship Eliminates Long-Time Shadow

  The LSU Tigers’ 2019 national championship reversed the curse of the 2011 season and title game

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - research • analysis • solutions

• Ongoing CCPA analysis of Ontario education funding

  CCPA's Ontario office is closely following ongoing changes to education funding in the province. The

• Peace River Frack-Up

  After reviewing hundreds of documents, obtained through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, which raise

• Planning for a Build-Out of Affordable Rental Housing in Metro Vancouver

  To fully address Metro Vancouver’s housing crisis, an ambitious build-out program of 10,000 new units

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Times of India

• Those communalising government steps like CAA exposed: PM Narendra Modi

• SC grants bail to 14 convicts serving life terms for Gujarat riots

• Ace badminton player Saina Nehwal joins BJP

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

• Modi, Netanyahu exchange pleasantries on 28th anniversary of establishment

• Citizenship Act has provision for Muslims from Pakistan, says Rajnath Singh

  Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said that the Citizenship Act of the country has provision

• India reports first positive case of coronavirus; screening tightened at

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News24 Top Stories

• News24.com | ANC heads to court to challenge Tshwane speaker ruling

  The ANC in Pretoria has announced it will be heading to court to force speaker Katlego Mathebe to implement

• News24.com | Coronavirus outbreak declared global public health emergency

  The World Health Organisation has declared that the coronavirus outbreak is a global public health

• News24.com | WATCH | Cops probe whether Durban officer was drunk on duty

  A Durban cop who was allegedly drunk on the job will be subjected to a disciplinary process, according to

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News24 Voices

• News24.com | Mpumelelo Mkhabela | Expropriation: Less emotion, more

  For an expropriation without compensation mechanism to pass constitutional muster, it must have in-built

• News24.com | OPINION: Patrice should not have apologised for telling Trump

  The apology was a setback for both freedom of expression and for freedom of thought. The message that we

• News24.com | Melanie Verwoerd: Taxpayers can’t be the only ones to tighten

  Parliamentarians are entitled to a good salary and sufficient pension benefits, but these kinds of luxuries

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News24 Africa

• News24.com | Nigeria court orders halt to Lagos waterfront evictions

  A court in Nigeria's economic capital Lagos has ordered the military to halt forced evictions of

• News24.com | Libya: UN envoy slams violations of pledge to end foreign

  A UN envoy has charged that foreign actors continue to meddle in Libya's conflict, resupplying the

• News24.com | African bid for 'solutions' in Libyan crisis

  African leaders on Thursday began a diplomatic push in the Congolese capital Brazzaville aimed at

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World: BreakingNews.ie

• Coronavirus declared global emergency by World Health Organisation

  A declaration of a global emergency typically brings greater money and resources.

• Brussels marks Brexit with Remain-supporting festivities

  The Mayor arranged for the city’s Grand-Place to be lit up in the Union Flag’s red, white and

• Man arrested over £50m jewellery raid on UK heiress Tamara Ecclestone’s

  The suspect was detained at Heathrow Airport on suspicion of conspiracy to commit burglary, Met police said

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TASS

• Russia's envoy notes lack of progress in implementing Paris summit

  Russia's OSCE envoy Alexander Lukashevich said that a sustainable ceasefire regime should be

• All ends well: pardoned Naama Issachar returns to Israel

  On Wednesday morning, Putin signed a decree pardoning Issachar, and on Thursday morning, it was reported

• Russian Railways cancels order to terminate freight traffic with China

  Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said earlier that from January 31 Russia would suspend

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WebMD Health

• First Spread of Coronavirus in U.S. Confirmed

  It's the first time the new virus has spread from one person to another in the United States.

• Could Strep Throat Become Untreatable?

  A new study warns that strains of bacteria that cause strep throat and "flesh-eating disease"

• Mom on Son’s Flu: ‘Scariest Time of My Life’

  The coma was the scariest, John says. "When I woke up, I thought it was still the day after Christmas,

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WhoWhatWhy

• Trump’s Chilling Effect on Whistleblowers

  Reading Time: 3 minutes Coordinated attacks from the president and administration-friendly media have

• Ring Doorbell ‘Gives Facebook and Google User Data’

  Reading Time: 2 minutes Eco-Fascist Terror Group Linked to Swedish Arson ; The 10,000-Year Clock Is a

• Like a Fox — How a TV Channel Is Tearing America Apart

  Reading Time: 7 minutes For two decades, Fox News has made piles of money from creating a fictional

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Science Blog

• Our brain has a barrier that stops drugs. How do we get past it?

  A new drug for Alzheimer’s, stroke or brain injury might work well in the lab, but the crucial test

• Patient with unusually severe infection leads scientists to a rare type of

  It can turn the nuclei of human cells into kidney-shaped blobs, but it’s unlikely that you would have

• U.S. birth weights drop due to rise in cesarean births, inductions

  U.S. birth weights have fallen significantly in recent decades due to soaring rates of cesarean deliveries

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Raw Story

• Senate stunned as Schiff reveals DOJ just argued in court that defying

  President Donald Trump’s Justice Department appeared in court Thursday as part of the Houses’

• DOJ lawyer argues that ignoring subpoenas is in itself an impeachable

  In federal court this Thursday, a Justice Department lawyer said that ignoring subpoenas is an impeachable

• Veteran newsman Dan Rather nails Republicans for being anti-science while a

  Veteran newsman Dan Rather blasted Republicans for being anti-science when it will be science that

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Scoop NZ - Sci-tech

• Recycling breakthrough set to save environment from acid

  An industrial prototype to recycle acid waste from Christchurch’s galvanised steel industries is just the

• Hotspot Watch

  The latest Hotspot Watch is attached. A huge Hotspot now covers Northland, Waikato, Auckland and Coromandel

• Research For Life invites researchers to apply for grants

  Research For Life (RFL) invites Wellington-based medical researchers to apply for research and travel

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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

• Fascists Eat Donuts

  From 2003, Make these donuts with extra grease. This batch is for the chief of police. Does anyone remember

• It’s Intimidation, Not “Moderation”

  The Nation has a great piece by By Guy T. Saperstein and Joe Cirincione, titled, Americans Want Jobs, Not

• Wut?

  For no particular reason, a bagpipe version of Eight Miles High by Rufus Harley. Inspired by John Coltrane

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The Slog

• MEDIA CRISIS: The State Press gangs versus the Pirate Volunteers

  A volunteer is worth a thousand pressed men   In yesterday’s Times, Daniel Finkelstein offered

• SPA REFORM & BREXIT: A glaring lamp trained on duplicitous, illegal

  What a wonderful thing it would be if both the Brexit trade talks and SPA reform “legality”

• ZERO HEDGE: Another reason to assume zero trust in media provenance

  Those media who take the sponsorship shilling will eagerly deny you justice for thirty pieces of silver

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Things I grab, motley collection

• New York just set a dangerous precedent on algorithms, experts warn

  It was supposed to be groundbreaking. When New York City’s task force to develop policy on algorithm

• the second wave of algorithmic accountability

  Over the past decade, algorithmic accountability has become an important concern for social scientists

• AI today and tomorrow is mostly about curve fitting, not intelligence

  As much as I look into what’s being done with deep learning, I see they’re all stuck there on the level of

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Top Documentary Films

• Charlie and the Humans

  Increasingly sophisticated artificial

• Evaporated People

  One morning in 2002, a 24-year old

• Eye of the Pangolin

  Pangolins are exotic, scaly animals

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Universe Today

• There’s a 1 in 20 Chance That Two Dead Satellites Might Crash Tonight

  According to multiple assessments, there's a good chance two dead satellites will crash in the skies

• NASA is Going to Add a Commercial Module to the Space Station

  NASA’s plan to open up the International Space Station (ISS) to commercial activity is gaining ground

• Okay, this Logo Proves that Space Force Should Have Really Been Called Star

  Now that the US Space Force’s new uniforms have been eviscerated on social media (that was so last

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Whistleblower Protection Blog

• Oversight hearing: Congress needs to clarify rules on confidentiality for

  Wednesday’s Congressional hearing on whistleblower protection for federal employees went a little off track

• Snowden: Greenwald charges represent pushback against whistleblowers

  Edward Snowden, the noted NSA whistleblower, last night spoke up in defense of his partner in…crime?

• Whistleblower news round-up: DOD, SEC and all the way to Africa

  Securities and Exchange Commission In announcing its first two whistleblower awards of the year, the

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Andy Worthington

• Radio: Unauthorized Disclosure – I Discuss Guantánamo and Julian Assange

  A link to - and my report about - my recent interview with Kevin Gosztola and Rania Khalek for their "

• Radio: I Discuss Guantánamo on the Project Censored Show with Mickey Huff,

  A round-up of the radio interviews I undertook during my recent US visit to call for the closure of the

• Video: Attorney Shelby Sullivan-Bennis and I Bring the Sorrow, Injustice

  My report about - and link to the video of - my speaking event about Guantánamo at Revolution Books in New

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