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Zelo Street

• Guido Fracked - Latest XR Smear BUSTED

• Harry’s Last Stand PWNS Hartley Dooda

• Rachel Riley - You’re A Troll, Too

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Politics : NPR

• Republican Lawmaker Discusses Turkey Sanctions

  NPR's Audie Cornish interviews Republican Congressman Don Bacon of Nebraska about sanctions against

• A South Carolina Democrat's Impeachment Holdout

  Moderate Democratic Rep. Joe Cunningham has not publicly backed the House impeachment inquiry. He's

• Video Of Fake Trump Attacking Media Is Widely Condemned

  A graphic video showing a fake President Trump shooting and stabbing journalists and political adversaries

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Discover: BreakingNews.ie

• Jeremy Corbyn grimace caught on camera ahead of Queen’s Speech

  The Labour leader was walking through Parliament with Boris Johnson when he was seen gesturing to a camera

• 'People still think it's a load of rubbish... That's fair

  The writer of 'Ireland's Call' says he expected some backlash to the anthem when it was first

• Fortnite gamers see map sucked into black hole

  The popular battle royale game’s latest large-scale live event saw the island map where the game

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Ireland: BreakingNews.ie

• Emergency services respond to flash floods in Douglas and Cork city

  Emergency services have been praised for a swift response to flash floods in the Douglas village area of

• Rape trial hears of ‘help me’, ‘I’m hurt badly’ text messages

  Text messages with the words “Help me” and “I’m hurt badly” were sent at

• M8 closed between Mitchelstown and Cahir due to flooding; Reports of

  A section of the M8 motorway between Cork and Dublin is closed this evening due to severe flooding.

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memeorandum

• Joker: A Violent, Noxious Scorsese Rip-Off (Ross Douthat/National Review)

  Ross Douthat / National Review : Joker: A Violent, Noxious Scorsese Rip-Off   —  There

• Biden says if he's elected in 2020, he will not pardon Trump (O. Kay

  O. Kay Henderson / Radio Iowa : Biden says if he's elected in 2020, he will not pardon Trump  

• Trump's Former Russia Adviser Testifies As Part of Impeachment Inquiry

  Bobby Allyn / NPR : Trump's Former Russia Adviser Testifies As Part of Impeachment Inquiry   &

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The Hayride

• Empower Texans’ head releases timeline of Bonnen meetings ahead of

  Empower Texans’ Michael Quinn Sullivan released a timeline of events Monday of interactions he’s had with

• Is There A Competent Firm In The Running For The EBR Superintendent Search

  With St. George abandoning the EBR ship and all of the talk about the implications for schools, it may be

• Here’s a list of American companies supporting Chinese censorship

  Here’s a list of U.S. companies supporting Chinese censorship, according to a list compiled on

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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - research • analysis • solutions

• CCPA SK Annual General Meeting

  Please join us for our Annual General Meeting in Saskatoon, 5:00pm, Thursday, October 24th at Station 20

• Corporate Mapping Project receives award for research excellence

  The co-directors of the Corporate Mapping Project —CCPA-BC Director Shannon Daub and the University of

• Unpacking the details of Manitoba Hydro

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

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Times of India

• PM Modi dares opposition to declare bringing back Article 370 in manifesto

• Majoritarianism taking India down ‘dark and uncertain path’: Rajan

• Indian economy on a shaky ground: Nobel awardee Abhijit Banerjee

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

• Parliament an open institution, empowers citizens to hold MPs responsible:

  Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday said Parliament is an open institution which enables citizens to

• Bangladeshi terror outfit JMB expanding footprint in India: NIA

• Preserve proof of Pakistan terror imprint, NSA Doval tells agencies

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News24 Top Stories

• News24.com | Mkhwebane: We have sad stories with happy endings but media is

  Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane claimed the good work done by her office is being overshadowed by media

• News24.com | Bombs discovered in Eastern Cape dam: Residents warned not to

  The Strelitzia Dam in Uitenhage is set to be closed following the discovery of three mortars in its waters.

• News24.com | Why SA has a shortage of doctors and nurses

  Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize says the demand for health services in South Africa is increasing and funds

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News24 Voices

• News24.com | Herman Mashaba: Walking away from Johannesburg would be the DA

  Joburg's multi-party co-operation is not something that should be a source of trepidation, it should be

• News24.com | Adriaan Basson: Mr President, intelligence cannot afford

  Fears about State Security Minister Ayanda Dlodlo weren't unfounded. Six months into the job, she has

• News24.com | Helen Zille: 10 years of court battles to 'Stop Zuma'

  It is sobering to think that the"nine wasted Zuma years" (and an estimated $50bn lost to

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News24 Africa

• News24.com | Nigeria says no 'time limit' on border closure for

  Nigeria's customs chief says a ban on goods coming into the country across its land borders will last

• News24.com | Amnesty decries 'climate of fear' for Nigeria

  Amnesty International says journalists in Nigeria are operating under a "climate of fear", after

• News24.com | The trials and joys of travelling in overloaded malaichas to

  Minibus taxis or malaichas, with their trailers filled with goods, offer a glimmer of hope for desperate

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World: BreakingNews.ie

• Widely available drug ‘could reduce deaths from head injury’

  Depending on the severity of the injury, scientists say tranexamic acid (TXA) has the potential to save

• Protests erupt as Spain convicts leading Catalan separatists

  Police fired foam bullets and used batons against thousands of protesters at Barcelona-El Prat Airport.

• ‘Homemade bomb targeted police’ in Hong Kong protests

  The ‘loud thud’ on Sunday night happened close to officers who had been clearing away a

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TASS

• US takes wives of 50 foreign mercenaries who fought alongside terrorists

  A source in the Iraqi presidential administration described the move as inadmissible

• Wikileaks founder Assange probably tortured in UK detention — Lavrov

  The Russian foreign minister noted the importance of one-on-one contacts in diplomacy

• Russian, US military chiefs discuss Syria — Pentagon

  The two officials agreed to keep the specific details of their conversation secret

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WebMD Health

• Is Melanoma Suspected? Get 2nd Opinion From Specialist, Study Says

  Getting a second opinion from a pathologist specially trained in skin lesions -- a dermatopathologist

• Vision Problems Strike More Than 2 Billion Globally

  Untreated distance vision impairment in low- and middle-income regions is about four times higher than in

• Suicide Attempts Rising Among Black Teens

  Researchers at New York University found that between 1991 and 2017, there was an increase in the number of

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WhoWhatWhy

• New Material Captures CO2 and Converts It Into Useful Chemicals

  Reading Time: 1 minute Is the Electric Car Bubble Bursting? ; Donald Trump's Iran Humiliation ; and

• The ‘Plague’ of Fascism Infecting Trump’s America

  Reading Time: 8 minutes The belated recognition of white supremacists as a national security threat

• Is Trump’s Clown Car Going off the Rails?

  Reading Time: 3 minutes Things are getting so insane in Washington that it’s tough to keep up. The bad

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Science Blog

• Investing in love and affection pays off for species that mate for life

  The males of species that form long-lasting pair-bonds, like many birds, often continue to make elaborate

• Unique sticky particles formed by harnessing chaos

  New research from North Carolina State University shows that unique materials with distinct properties akin

• Scientists aim for new weapons in fight against superbugs

  by Rex Merrifield New weapons are needed to fight drug-resistant bacteria, one of the biggest threats

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Raw Story

• Giuliani could get locked up for violating lobbying laws: Former FBI deputy

  On Monday’s edition of CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time,” former FBI Deputy Director Andrew

• Bombshell testimony from Trump’s former Russia czar implicated Rudy

  On Monday, the Washington Post reported that during her 10-hour closed-door testimony to the House

• Trump is guilty of everything Bill Barr decried in his Bible-thumping

  On Monday, Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell suggested that while Attorney General William Barr&#

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Scoop NZ - Sci-tech

• Velocity challenge finalists announced

  An alternative power generation mechanism for satellites, a low-cost, portable diagnostic tool that detects

• History Made by Waikato’s EquiBreed

  Waikato company EquiBreed NZ have made history with the birth of New Zealand’s first foal produced by an in

• LeoLabs Unveils Kiwi Space Radar

  Menlo Park, CA, October 14, 2019— LeoLabs, Inc., the leading commercial provider of low Earth orbit (LEO

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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

• I Told You So

  I hate being a dirty hippie blogger with nothing left to say except, “I told you so,” I started

• 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

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The Slog.

• Slowly, slowly catchee Barnier monkeys? Or ruination for Johnson & Cummings

   There is still a fair chance that Team Boris will outwit Brussels. And every chance that Team Boris will

• At the End of the Day

   With the B-word negotiations on a ‘fifty-fifty knife edge’ because there is ‘still a lot

• The Saturday Smile

   I’ll swap you a Kuennesberg for a Rooney, a pathway for a tunnel, an extension for a No Deal, a

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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

  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

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Top Documentary Films

• Addicted: America's Opioid Crisis

  It begins with the children. Haunted

• Plastic Tide: Choking on Coke

  Plastic pollution is suffocating our

• Kate: The Making of a Modern Queen

  Blessed by a natural poise, beauty

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Universe Today

• This Dried Up Riverbed Shows that Water Once Flowed on the Surface of Mars

  From some viewpoints, Mars is kind of like a skeleton of Earth. We can see that it had volcanoes, oceans

• A Satellite Just Launched Whose Job is to Extend the Life of Geosynchronous

  Space Logistics LLC, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman, has launched a satellite that can extend the life of

• Lava Flows on Venus Suggest That the Planet Was Never Warm and Wet

  A new study on the volcanic highlands of Venus casts doubt on whether or not the planet ever had oceans.

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Washington's Blog

• Video: Abiy Ahmed: 2019 Peace Laureate

• The Nobel Committee Is Doing Better

  The committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize was right not to give the prize to Greta Thunberg, who

• America 2019: Even the Wealthy Are Poorer in Everything That Matters

  A good friend related a story that goes directly to the heart of what’s broken in our way of life. My

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Whistleblower Protection Blog

• Changes to SEC whistleblower rules would “destroy the program”

  The Associated Press is out with a story on upcoming changes to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC

• Giant panda costumes aside, protecting intelligence community

  FBI whistleblower Michael German writes in today’s Washington Post about flaws in the system designed to

• Whistleblowing, over here and over there

  Almost all of the money management or securities firms on Wall Street “entrusted with the life savings of

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Andy Worthington

• Extinction Rebellion and the Undeniable Power of Non-Violent Revolutionary

  As the second week of Extinction Rebellion's International Rebellion begins, I report on the success of

• No Escape from Guantánamo: Former Child Prisoner Boycotts Broken Review

  My analysis of the broken Periodic Review Board system at Guantanamo, a parole-type process introduced by

• In Abu Zubaydah Court Case, US Judges Admit That He Was Tortured

  My report about a little-noticed ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Abu Zubaydah,

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