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Zelo Street

• Parliament - Clear Out The Real Corruption

• Bozo Brexit Bravado BUSTED

• Top Six - October 20

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Politics : NPR

• After Redistricting, Virginia's House Speaker Faces Tough Re-Election

  It was ruled that the House speaker's district was racially gerrymandered and needed to be redrawn. Now

• Ex-VA Chief's Book Describes Chaos And Confusion Inside The White House

  Dr. David Shulkin has written a memoir about his time as secretary of Veterans Affairs in the Trump

• It's Been 1 Month Since The House Launched Its Impeachment Inquiry

  The key witness this week in the House impeachment probe is expected to be William Taylor, the acting U.S.

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Discover: BreakingNews.ie

• The official route map for Cork’s ‘Blaze of Jazz’ parade

  What do you get when you mix red-hot jazz with the fiery characters of Cork, and the unique surge of

• An Irish Examiner article from 2015 is doing the rounds in New Zealand

  ‘Ask Audrey’ has been the newspaper’s hysterical agony aunt “for ages, like”.

• Rare Mickey Mouse masks to be sold at auction

  The papier mache masks were made in Germany in the 1930s when Hitler’s Nazi regime was disparaging

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Ireland: BreakingNews.ie

• Gardaí decline to confirm if members will be used to plug gaps during speed

  Gardaí have declined to confirm whether or not members of the force will be used to plug gaps during

• Boy who injured lip after the front wheel of his bike allegedly hit foot

  Malcolm Akpaka was only eight years old and cycling in a Dublin housing estate when it is claimed his front

• 'I felt terrorised in my childhood bedrooms': Woman raped as a

  A man who acted on a “paedophilic sexual interest” he had in a school girl has been jailed for

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memeorandum

• Pelosi's meeting antics were a disservice to women (Miranda Devine/New

  Miranda Devine / New York Post : Pelosi's meeting antics were a disservice to women   —&

• Warren Would Use Wealth Tax to Fund $800 Billion Education Plan (Joshua

  Joshua Jamerson / Wall Street Journal : Warren Would Use Wealth Tax to Fund $800 Billion Education Plan

• Trump vs. Democratic candidates (Matt DeLong/Star Tribune)

  Matt DeLong / Star Tribune : Trump vs. Democratic candidates   —  The Star Tribune

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The Hayride

• APPEL: Democracy Dies In JBE’s “Pay To Play” Darkness

  “Democracy dies in darkness.” So true, American democracy has long depended on an inquiring

• Debunking Just One Aspect Of JBE’s Ad Attacking Eddie Rispone

  There is a John Bel Edwards TV spot circulating on the tube across the state at the moment, and it’s

• Quote Of The Day, October 21, 2019

  “The concept of Marxist critical theory involves bashing the old culture in every way, and every

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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

• US dream crushed, but 311 Indians relieved to be home

• Indian Army launches artillery attack on terror camps in PoK; 4 launch pads

• Malaysia, Turkey face India’s ire over support to Pakistan on Kashmir

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

• Social media regulations to be ready by Jan 2020: Centre to SC

• INX Media case: Delhi court takes cognisance of CBI chargesheet against

• Haryana exit polls 2019: BJP expected to gain big

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News24 Top Stories

• News24.com | WATCH: Baleka Mbete says ANC cannot be blamed for SA's

  In an interview with Al Jazeera, ANC heavyweight and former National Assembly speaker Baleka Mbete claims

• News24.com | 'I still hold the same values' - Zille says Mashaba

  Herman Mashaba joined the DA "with great enthusiasm" when Helen Zille was still leader, newly

• News24.com | FIRST TAKE: Mashaba punches DA in the face, Maimane calls him

  Herman Mashaba resigned as DA mayor of the City of Johannesburg on Monday, launching a stinging attack on

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News24 Voices

• News24.com | Daniel Silke: DA buckles at the knees as Mashaba walks and

  The DA will spin Herman Mashaba as rarely in-step with prevailing party thinking, but he was a forceful

• News24.com | READ IN FULL | Herman Mashaba: I cannot reconcile myself with

  I believe that my devotion to liberalism is not at odds with my desire to ensure that we live in a just and

• News24.com | FIRST TAKE: Mashaba punches DA in the face, Maimane calls him

  Herman Mashaba resigned as DA mayor of the City of Johannesburg on Monday, launching a stinging attack on

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News24 Africa

• News24.com | WATCH | Nearly 150 freed from purported school in Nigeria

  Police said they had freed nearly 150 students from a purported school in northern Nigeria that claimed it

• News24.com | Floods force 23 000 from their homes in Niger

  Floods in southeast Niger have forced 23 000 people to flee their homes since early October, officials say,

• News24.com | Diamond-rich Botswana facing problems ahead of general

  Diamond-rich Botswana is hailed for its stability, but the southern African nation struggles with income

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World: BreakingNews.ie

• UK police suspect gatecrashers in ‘targeted’ house party double stabbing

  Two teenagers were stabbed in Milton Keynes.

• Rescue teams begin search after Dallas hit by tornado

  One person was killed in Arkansas as the storms moved to the north-east.

• Brexit decision postponed by judges to see if PM ‘fully complies’ with Benn

  Petitioners now want to see if Boris Johnson will accept any potential extension granted by the EU.

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TASS

• Russia-Africa Summit will adopt a declaration, Kremlin aide says

  The document will enshrine the agreed approaches to the development of Russian-African cooperation and ways

• Armenian president offers condolences over tragedy in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk

  Fifteen are reported as killed following a dam collapse

• Russian Tennis Federation announces team’s lineup for 2019 Davis Cup Finals

  The event will be hosted by Spain’s Madrid between November 18 and 24

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WebMD Health

• Drug Limits Damage of Brain Injury

  Treatment with the drug within three hours of brain injury reduced the risk of death, the investigators

• Vaccine Exemptions for Kindergartners Still Rising

  The exemption rate for one or more required vaccines was 2.5% in the 2018-19 school year, up from 2.3% in

• Recall: FDA Sees Trace Asbestos in J&J Baby Powder

  Johnson & Johnson said FDA testing as recently as last month found no trace of asbestos. The company says

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WhoWhatWhy

• Serena Shim: The Life and Unexplained Death of a Syria War Reporter

  Reading Time: 8 minutes The young, American journalist investigated Turkey’s meddling in Syria’s civil war

• As the US Flex Muscle, Saudi Arabia Flirts with Old Enemies

  Reading Time: 2 minutes All options are on the table for US ally Saudi Arabia: from peace talks with Iran

• Diplomacy for Dummies: Foreign Policy Is No Place for Amateurs

  Reading Time: 3 minutes Foreign policy should be left to the intellectually competent. There’s a test for

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Science Blog

• Scientists Find Way to Fully Recycle Plastics Without Losing Quality

  ​A research group at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed an efficient process for

• Creatine powers T cells’ fight against cancer

  Creatine, the organic acid that is popularly taken as a supplement by athletes and bodybuilders, serves as

• NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor

  In the deadly 2018 earthquake in the Indonesian city of Palu, intense shaking changed solid ground into a

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Raw Story

• Melania Trump just reignited a 100-year-old political controversy

  On Tuesday October 8, with impeachment speculation swirling and increasingly disturbing reports coming out

• Trump whines about having to cancel his corrupt G7 stunt: ‘Doral would have

  President Donald Trump may have cancelled his bid to hold the G7 summit at his own golf course in Doral

• ‘This is an ethical train wreck!’ Ex-GOP lawmaker gets demolished for

  Former Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) on Monday went down in flames after he tried to defend President Donald Trump

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Scoop NZ - Sci-tech

• Low pressure sets trend for cold week ahead

  MetService is predicting a series of fronts to cross the country today and the rest of the week which will

• Mapping experts win award for leadership in crisis

  A grassroots community of mapmakers that created an interactive map viewed by over 800,000 people during

• New Zealand duo’s invention shortlisted globally

  In society’s next wave of sustainability progress, design skills will need to feature heavily. This year’s

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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.

• EXPLOSIVE: the geopolitics of Brexit, and the odd recent history of Philip

   I have felt since July 2016 that what kind of Brexit we get (if any) will be determined by what the mad

• THE SUNDAY ESSAY: Thwarting Remain isn’t enough; only a new Reform Movement

   It’s seems clear to me that voting to kill WA2 is the best way to get rid of the cancerous influence

• BIG BREXIT DAY: WHATEVER YOUR VIEW ON BOJO’S DEAL, THERE’S ONLY ONE ACTION…

  VOTE IT DOWN   ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Good morning. In the wee small hours of yesterday, I

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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

• The Great Leap Forward

  Artificial intelligence (AI) is one

• Tim Burton: The Twisted Story of the Eccentric Filmmaker

  Since he first burst onto the movie

• Addicted: America's Opioid Crisis

  It begins with the children. Haunted

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Universe Today

• The Most Massive Galaxies Spin More Than Twice as Fast as the Milky Way

  Based on new observations of super spiral galaxies, a team of scientists has found that they have massive

• Comets and Interstellar Objects Could be Exporting Earth Life Out into the

  A new study suggests that comets and asteroids that graze Earth's atmosphere might be responsible for

• Success! NASA Confirms the Mole is Working Again.

  After months of setbacks, NASA says that the InSight Lander’s Mole is working again. InSight landed

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Washington's Blog

• Talk Nation Radio: Kings Bay Plowshares 7

  The Kingsbay Ploughshares 7 are facing 25 years in prison for their action at a nuclear submarine base. We

• What We’ve Lost

  A documentary on the decline of small farms and the rural economy in France highlights what we’ve

• Welcome to the USSR: the United States of Suppression and Repression

  When propaganda is cleverly engineered, people don’t even recognize it as propaganda: welcome to the

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Whistleblower Protection Blog

• “The Laundromat” has fun with finance fraud while its star sticks up for

   In Hollywood, everyone loves a whistleblower. Actress Meryl Streep played one early in her career in

• Can government employees be fired for something they say? Not legally

  Back in the day, a reporter could call someone at an institution or government agency, do an interview and

• Elijah Cummings, 1951–2019: Whistleblowers lose a champion

  From The Washington Post: Elijah E. Cummings, a Democratic congressman from Maryland who gained national

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Andy Worthington

• Radio: I Discuss Guantánamo on Portland’s KBOO FM with Linda Olson

  Here's my report about - and link to - an interview about Guantánamo that I undertook this week with

• Extinction Rebellion Challenges and Defies Outrageous London-Wide Ban on

  I report on the Metropolitan Police's outrageous decision to impose a London-wide ban on Extinction

• 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

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